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author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2020-04-02 06:07:52 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2020-04-02 10:41:33 +0200 |
commit | 7bd3e8d27d710021f848ba0b9e9772443c65e597 (patch) | |
tree | f4d816f8faa399edbf48c0325630473d069a354f /README.initrd | |
parent | 99c7cafd7376277cb010e2b7de0bf40de7ee6282 (diff) | |
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Thu Apr 2 06:07:52 UTC 202020200402060752
a/hwdata-0.334-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-5.4.29-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.4.29-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.4.29-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/pkgtools-15.0-noarch-32.txz: Rebuilt.
installpkg: handle the uninstall script packaged as /install/douninst.sh.
removepkg: add --skip-douninst option to skip running the uninstall script.
Save removed douninst.sh in /var/log/pkgtools/removed_uninstall_scripts.
ap/groff-1.22.4-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Fixed docdir. Thanks to Xsane.
d/gcc-9.3.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
d/gcc-brig-9.3.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
d/gcc-g++-9.3.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
d/gcc-gdc-9.3.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
d/gcc-gfortran-9.3.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Patched a compiler bug concerning assumed-shape vs. deferred-shape arrays.
Thanks to Lockywolf.
d/gcc-gnat-9.3.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
d/gcc-go-9.3.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
d/gcc-objc-9.3.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
d/kernel-headers-5.4.29-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/ruby-2.7.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes security issues:
Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability in JSON (Additional fix).
Heap exposure vulnerability in the socket library.
For more information, see:
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2020/03/19/json-dos-cve-2020-10663/
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2020/03/31/heap-exposure-in-socket-cve-2020-10933/
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-10663
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-10933
(* Security fix *)
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index b770697d7..be683bbe1 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Mar 25 22:26:01 UTC 2020 +Thu Apr 2 00:07:41 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 5.4.28 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.4.29 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-5.4.28-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.28-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.4.29-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.29-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-14.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 5.4.28 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.29 -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 5.4.28 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.4.29 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.28 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.29 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |