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A kernel security update has been released for Fedora 36.



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: kernel-6.2.9-100.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-d525cf5272
2023-04-08 01:29:08.946990
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Name : kernel
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 6.2.9
Release : 100.fc36
URL :   https://www.kernel.org/
Summary : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel meta package

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Update Information:

The 6.2.9 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the
tree.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Mar 30 2023 Augusto Caringi [6.2.9-0]
- Add bug numbers from recent MRs (Justin M. Forbes)
- net: wwan: iosm: fixes 7560 modem crash (M Chetan Kumar)
- Input: alps - fix compatibility with -funsigned-char (msizanoen)
- Input: focaltech - use explicitly signed char type (Jason A. Donenfeld)
- drm/nouveau/kms: Fix backlight registration (Hans de Goede)
- Add bugs addressed so far for the 6.2.9 build (Justin M. Forbes)
- btrfs: fix race between quota disable and quota assign ioctls (Filipe Manana)
- redhat/configs: Enable CONFIG_SND_SOC_CS42L83 (Neal Gompa)
- Add patch to turn off EFI_ZBOOT for Fedora 36 (Justin M. Forbes)
- Linux v6.2.9
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2181342 - CVE-2023-1611 Kernel: race between quota disable and quota assign ioctls in fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2181342
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-d525cf5272' 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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