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Fedora 42 Kernel Update 6.19.14-106 Security Enhancements 2026-db3618772b

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Fedora 42 kernel update adds mitigations and security improvements for fragnesia with several related changes.
The 6.19.14-106 kernel build contains additional mitigations for new code paths in fragnesia, and a couple of other security updates without fancy names or CVEs assigned yet.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 6.19.14-106 kernel build contains additional mitigations for new code paths in fragnesia, and a couple of other security updates without fancy names or CVEs assigned yet.

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Change Log

* Mon May 18 2026 Justin M. Forbes [6.19.14-106] - 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) * Mon May 18 2026 Justin M. Forbes [6.19.14-6] - net/sched: fix pedit partial COW leading to page cache corruption (Rajat Gupta) - net: skbuff: propagate shared-frag marker through frag-transfer helpers (Hyunwoo Kim) - Revert fragnesia v4 in favor of v5 (Justin M. Forbes) - net/sched: act_pedit: extend the writable skb range per key (Zhang Cen)

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2026-db3618772b 2026-05-19 18:21:15.523108+00:00 Name : kernel Product : Fedora 42 Version : 6.19.14 Release : 106.fc42 URL : https://www.kernel.org/ Summary : The Linux kernel Description : The kernel meta package

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-db3618772b' 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: 106.fc42
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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