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A kernel security update has been released for Fedora 37.



SECURITY: Fedora 37 Update: kernel-6.1.5-200.fc37


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-f4f9182dc8
2023-01-15 01:57:57.786804
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Name : kernel
Product : Fedora 37
Version : 6.1.5
Release : 200.fc37
URL :   https://www.kernel.org/
Summary : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel meta package

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Update Information:

The 6.1.5 stable kernel rebase contains new features, enhanced hardware support,
and a number of important fixes across the tree.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jan 12 2023 Justin M. Forbes [6.1.5-0]
- KVM: VMX: Execute IBPB on emulated VM-exit when guest has IBRS (Jim Mattson)
- Update module filters for nvmem_u-boot-env (Justin M. Forbes)
- drivers/firmware: skip simpledrm if nvidia-drm.modeset=1 is set (Javier Martinez Canillas)
- fedora: Updates for 6.1 merge (Peter Robinson)
- Linux v6.1.5
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2152807 - CVE-2022-4379 kernel: use-after-free in __nfs42_ssc_open() in fs/nfs/nfs4file.c leading to remote Denial of Service attack
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2152807
[ 2 ] Bug #2160023 - CVE-2022-2196 kernel: KVM: nVMX: missing IBPB when exiting from nested guest can lead to Spectre v2 attacks
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160023
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-f4f9182dc8' 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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