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Fedora 42 Kernel Important Security Fix Update 2026-b9f338a467

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Calendar Grey May 23, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 42 kernel update addresses critical security flaws with essential fixes for better system protection.
The 6.19.14-108 stable kernel update contains a couple if important security fixes.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 6.19.14-108 stable kernel update contains a couple if important security fixes.

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Change Log

* Thu May 21 2026 Justin M. Forbes [6.19.14-8] - net: skbuff: preserve shared-frag marker during coalescing (William Bowling) - xfrm: esp: restore combined single-frag length gate (Jingguo Tan) - Just disable the UKI DTB bits for the 6.19 repository (Justin M. Forbes) - Revert "redhat/kernel.spec.template: Fix indentation of uki-virt generation code" (Justin M. Forbes) - Revert "redhat/kernel.spec.template: Simplify uki-virt signing" (Justin M. Forbes) - Revert "redhat/kernel.spec.template: Add kernel-uki-dtbloader sub-package" (Justin M. Forbes) - Revert "redhat/kernel.spec.template: Make -uki-dtbloader provide kernel-core-uname-r" (Justin M. Forbes)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2480436 - kernel: Linux kernel: xfrm single-frag length not properly limited [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2480436

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-b9f338a467' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: kernel
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 6.19.14
Release: 108.fc42
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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