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author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2020-06-18 22:01:29 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2020-06-19 08:59:52 +0200 |
commit | 0ded95a6619bb151727096c01a30879455d04374 (patch) | |
tree | 6456120ea73101b045cbd698d9cbc726948ec9f4 /README.initrd | |
parent | 815d3877048a3e2d0d34b1c96fe3203c98c16f34 (diff) | |
download | current-0ded95a6619bb151727096c01a30879455d04374.tar.gz current-0ded95a6619bb151727096c01a30879455d04374.tar.xz |
Thu Jun 18 22:01:29 UTC 202020200618220129
a/kernel-generic-5.4.47-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.4.47-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.4.47-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/sysvinit-scripts-2.1-noarch-33.txz: Rebuilt.
rc.M: add support for elogind. Thanks to alienBOB.
a/util-linux-2.35.2-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
/etc/pam.d/login: support pam_elogind.so. Thanks to alienBOB.
ap/sqlite-3.32.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.4.47-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/rust-1.44.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.4.47-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/bind-9.16.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes two security issues:
It was possible to trigger an INSIST when determining whether a record would
fit into a TCP message buffer.
It was possible to trigger an INSIST in lib/dns/rbtdb.c:new_reference() with
a particular zone content and query patterns.
For more information, see:
https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8618
https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8619
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8618
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8619
(* Security fix *)
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
Diffstat (limited to 'README.initrd')
-rw-r--r-- | README.initrd | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 24aa7bd0f..a2b8be169 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Jun 10 22:48:00 UTC 2020 +Thu Jun 18 21:52:50 UTC 2020 This document describes how to create and install an initrd, which may be required to use the 4.x kernel. Also see "man mkinitrd". @@ -33,15 +33,15 @@ flexible to ship a generic kernel and a set of kernel modules for it. The easiest way to make the initrd is to use the mkinitrd script included in Slackware's mkinitrd package. We'll walk through the process of -upgrading to the generic 5.4.46 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.4.47 Linux kernel using the packages found in Slackware's slackware/a/ directory. First, make sure the kernel, kernel modules, and mkinitrd package are installed (the current version numbers might be a little different, so this is just an example): - installpkg kernel-generic-5.4.46-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.46-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.4.47-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.47-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-15.txz Change into the /boot directory: @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Now you'll want to run "mkinitrd". I'm using ext4 for my root filesystem, and since the disk controller requires no special support the ext4 module will be the only one I need to load: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.46 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.47 -m ext4 This should do two things. First, it will create a directory /boot/initrd-tree containing the initrd's filesystem. Then it will @@ -61,10 +61,10 @@ you could make some additional changes in /boot/initrd-tree/ and then run mkinitrd again without options to rebuild the image. That's optional, though, and only advanced users will need to think about that. -Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.4.46 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.4.47 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.46 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.47 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |