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A kernel security update has been released for Fedora 36.



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: kernel-5.17.11-300.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-8095b23575
2022-05-28 01:13:38.361017
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Name : kernel
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 5.17.11
Release : 300.fc36
URL :   https://www.kernel.org/
Summary : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel meta package

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Update Information:

The 5.17.11 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the
tree.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed May 25 2022 Justin M. Forbes [5.17.11-0]
- Linux v5.17.11 (Justin M. Forbes)
* Wed May 25 2022 Justin M. Forbes [5.17.11-0]
- Linux v5.17.11
* Wed May 25 2022 Justin M. Forbes [5.17.10-0]
- fedora: Re-enable efifb and vesafb drivers (Javier Martinez Canillas)
- drivers/firmware: skip simpledrm if nvidia-drm.modeset=1 is set (Javier Martinez Canillas)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2086753 - CVE-2022-1729 kernel: race condition in perf_event_open leads to privilege escalation
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2086753
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-8095b23575' 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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