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A kernel-tools security update has been released for Fedora 34.



SECURITY: Fedora 34 Update: kernel-tools-5.11.16-300.fc34


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2021-a963f04012
2021-04-29 00:30:41.229442
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Name : kernel-tools
Product : Fedora 34
Version : 5.11.16
Release : 300.fc34
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 5.11.16 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the
tree.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Apr 21 2021 Justin M. Forbes - 5.11.16-300
- Linux v5.11.16
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1948772 - CVE-2021-23133 kernel: Race condition in sctp_destroy_sock list_del
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1948772
[ 2 ] Bug #1951595 - CVE-2021-29155 kernel: protection for sequences of pointer arithmetic operations against speculatively out-of-bounds loads can be bypassed to leak content of kernel memory
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1951595
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-a963f04012' 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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