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Fedora 43 Kernel 7.0.9 Important Fixes Update 2026-94731f4ace

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Calendar Grey May 21, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Kernel updates in Fedora 43 address important security issues to enhance stability and protect user data.
The 7.0.9-105/205 stable kernel updates contain a couple if important security fixes.

Summary

The kernel meta package

Update Information:

The 7.0.9-105/205 stable kernel updates contain a couple if important security fixes.

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Change Log

* Thu May 21 2026 Justin M. Forbes [7.0.9-5] - net: skbuff: preserve shared-frag marker during coalescing (William Bowling) - xfrm: esp: restore combined single-frag length gate (Jingguo Tan) - rxrpc: Fix RESPONSE packet verification to extract skb to a linear buffer (David Howells) - rxrpc: Fix DATA decrypt vs splice() by copying data to buffer in recvmsg (David Howells) - crypto/krb5, rxrpc: Fix lack of pre-decrypt/pre-verify length checks (David Howells) - Revert "v3 crypto/krb5, rxrpc: Fix lack of pre-decrypt/pre-verify length checks" (Justin M. Forbes) - Revert "v3 rxrpc: Fix DATA decrypt vs splice() by copying data to buffer in recvmsg" (Justin M. Forbes) - Revert "v3 rxrpc: Fix RESPONSE packet verification to extract skb to a linear buffer" (Justin M. Forbes) - nfc: nxp-nci: i2c: use rising-edge IRQ on ACPI systems (Carl Lee) - ASoC: rt722-sdca: add FU06 Playback Switch for speaker mute control (Aaron Ma) - ASoC: amd: ps: fix the pcm device numbering for acp pdm dmic (Syed Saba Kareem) - ASoC: amd: acp: add Lenovo P16s G5 AMD quirk for legacy SDW machine (Mark Pearson) - ASoC: amd: acp-sdw-legacy: rename the dmic component name (Vijendar Mukunda) - ASoC: amd: acp: update dmic_num logic for acp pdm dmic (Vijendar Mukunda)

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-2026-94731f4ace' 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: 7.0.9
Release: 105.fc43
URL: https://www.kernel.org/
Summary: The Linux kernel

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