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A kernel security update has been released for Fedora 34.



SECURITY: Fedora 34 Update: kernel-5.17.4-100.fc34


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-0816754490
2022-04-24 19:42:27.497148
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Name : kernel
Product : Fedora 34
Version : 5.17.4
Release : 100.fc34
URL :   https://www.kernel.org/
Summary : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel meta package

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Update Information:

The 5.17.4 kernel rebase contains new features, improved hardware support, and a
number of important fixes across the tree.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Apr 20 2022 Justin M. Forbes [5.17.4-0]
- Add F34 and F35 as release targets (Justin M. Forbes)
- Revert "net: bcmgenet: Use stronger register read/writes to assure ordering" (Justin M. Forbes)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2031194 - CVE-2021-4095 kernel: KVM: NULL pointer dereference in kvm_dirty_ring_get() in virt/kvm/dirty_ring.c
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2031194
[ 2 ] Bug #2039178 - CVE-2021-4204 kernel: improper input validation may lead to privilege escalation
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2039178
[ 3 ] Bug #2071051 - CVE-2022-1204 kernel: Use after free in net/ax25/af_ax25.c
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2071051
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-0816754490' 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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