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A kernel-tools security update has been released for Fedora 33.



SECURITY: Fedora 33 Update: kernel-tools-5.11.19-200.fc33


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2021-7c085ca697
2021-05-13 01:21:38.927391
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Name : kernel-tools
Product : Fedora 33
Version : 5.11.19
Release : 200.fc33
URL :   http://www.kernel.org/
Summary : Assortment of tools for the Linux kernel
Description :
This package contains the tools/ directory from the kernel source
and the supporting documentation.

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Update Information:

The 5.11.9 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the
tree.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri May 7 2021 Justin M. Forbes - 5.11.19-200
- Linux v5.11.19
* Thu May 6 2021 Jiri Olsa
- Remove libbpf package
* Thu May 6 2021 Justin M. Forbes
- Build and package intel-speed-select (rhbz 1882427)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1957788 - CVE-2021-31829 kernel: protection of stack pointer against speculative pointer arithmetic can be bypassed to leak content of kernel memory
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1957788
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-7c085ca697' 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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