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The following security updates have been released for Fedora Linux 40:

Fedora 40 Update: emacs-29.4-3.fc40
Fedora 40 Update: kernel-6.9.6-200.fc40




Fedora 40 Update: emacs-29.4-3.fc40


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2024-a3fecfab32
2024-06-28 01:57:22.925708
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Name : emacs
Product : Fedora 40
Version : 29.4
Release : 3.fc40
URL : https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
Summary : GNU Emacs text editor
Description :
Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text
editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting
language (elisp), and the capability to read mail, news, and more
without leaving the editor.

This package provides an emacs binary with support for Wayland, using the
GTK toolkit.

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Update Information:

Update to Emacs 29.4, fixing CVE-2024-39331.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jun 24 2024 Peter Oliver [git@mavit.org.uk] - 1:29.4-3
- Remember to commit key.
* Sun Jun 23 2024 Peter Oliver [git@mavit.org.uk] - 1:29.4-2
- Emacs 29.4 tarball is signed by Stefan Kangas, not Eli Zaretskii.
* Sun Jun 23 2024 Peter Oliver [git@mavit.org.uk] - 1:29.4-1
- Update to version 29.4.
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2293788 - emacs-29.4 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293788
[ 2 ] Bug #2293944 - CVE-2024-39331 emacs: org-link-expand-abbrev: Do not evaluate arbitrary unsafe Elisp code [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293944
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-a3fecfab32' 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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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Fedora 40 Update: kernel-6.9.6-200.fc40


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2024-aca908f73b
2024-06-28 01:57:22.925700
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Name : kernel
Product : Fedora 40
Version : 6.9.6
Release : 200.fc40
URL : https://www.kernel.org/
Summary : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel meta package

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Update Information:

The 6.9.6 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the
tree.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jun 21 2024 Augusto Caringi [acaringi@redhat.com] [6.9.6-0]
- Linux v6.9.6
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2291185 - kernel: RH-CVE-2280317 kernel: slab-out-of-bounds in hex_dump_to_buffer [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2291185
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-aca908f73b' 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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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