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Fedora 43 Release: Kernel 6.17 rc6 VMSCAPE Advisory FEDORA-2025-22c5cc654d

fedora
Calendar Grey September 18, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Ubuntu 22.04 kernel 5.19 x.y addresses latest vulnerabilities and key improvements. Upgrade advised for better stability.
The 6.17 rc6 kernel build contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 6.17 rc6 kernel build contains a number of important fixes across the tree. It also includes mitigations for the VMSCAPE vulnerability on x86 CPUs. This has been assigned CVE-2025-40300.

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Change Log

* Mon Sep 15 2025 Fedora Kernel Team [6.17.0-0.rc6.49] - arm64: dts: qcom: x1e80100-lenovo-yoga-slim7x: add Bluetooth support (Jens Glathe) - ALSA HDA driver configuration split for 6.17 upstream (Jaroslav Kysela) - redhat/configs: clang_lto: disable CONFIG_FORTIFY_KUNIT_TEST (Scott Weaver) * Mon Sep 15 2025 Fedora Kernel Team [6.17.0-0.rc6.48] - Linux v6.17.0-0.rc6 * Sun Sep 14 2025 Fedora Kernel Team [6.17.0-0.rc5.f83a4f2a4d8c.47] - Linux v6.17.0-0.rc5.f83a4f2a4d8c * Sat Sep 13 2025 Fedora Kernel Team [6.17.0-0.rc5.22f20375f5b7.46] - Set CONFIG_MITIGATION_VMSCAPE for Fedora (Justin M. Forbes) - Linux v6.17.0-0.rc5.22f20375f5b7 * Fri Sep 12 2025 Fedora Kernel Team [6.17.0-0.rc5.320475fbd590.45] - redhat/Makefile: update dist-vr-check (Scott Weaver) - Linux v6.17.0-0.rc5.320475fbd590 * Thu Sep 11 2025 Fedora Kernel Team [6.17.0-0.rc5.7aac71907bde.44] - Linux v6.17.0-0.rc5.7aac71907bde * Wed Sep 10 2025 Fedora Kernel Team [6.17.0-0.rc5.9dd1835ecda5.43] - gitlab-ci: add kcidb_tree_name to trees (Tales da Aparecida) - Fix packaging for libcpupower python binding debuginfo (Justin M. Forbes) - redhat/configs: automotive: enable TI K3 R5F remoteproc driver (Jared Kangas) - Move CONFIG_SCHED_PROXY_EXEC to the zfcpdump directory (Justin M. Forbes) - Set Fedora configs for 6.17 (Justin M. Forbes) - Linux v6.17.0-0.rc5.9dd1835ecda5 * Tue Sep 9 2025 Fedora Kernel Team [6.17.0-0.rc5.f777d1112ee5.42] - Linux v6.17.0-0.rc5.f777d1112ee5

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-22c5cc654d 2025-09-18 00:16:07.326046+00:00 Name : kernel Product : Fedora 43 Version : 6.17.0 Release : 0.rc6.49.fc43 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-2025-22c5cc654d' 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 43
Version: 6.17.0
Release: 0.rc6.49.fc43
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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