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A kernel security update has been released for Fedora 34.



SECURITY: Fedora 34 Update: kernel-5.16.5-100.fc34


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-667a5c6e26
2022-02-06 02:01:15.080487
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Name : kernel
Product : Fedora 34
Version : 5.16.5
Release : 100.fc34
URL :   https://www.kernel.org/
Summary : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel meta package

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Update Information:

The 5.16.5 stable kernel rebase contains new features, additional hardware
support, and a number of important fixes across the tree.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Feb 1 2022 Justin M. Forbes [5.16.5-0]
- Linux v5.16.5 rebase
- ath11k: add support for WCN6855 hw2.1 (Baochen Qiang)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2048492 - CVE-2022-24122 kernel: use-after-free and privilege escalation in kernel/ucount.c when unprivileged user namespaces are enabled
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2048492
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-667a5c6e26' 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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