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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2019-07-15 00:26:07 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2019-07-15 08:59:48 +0200 |
| commit | b2bf157be93287e947cec2f8792b0fa912493a34 (patch) | |
| tree | fcb9f4fa25dc9b6bc18ebd349197755f82b3680b /README.initrd | |
| parent | 424ebe6bb56b8c6aca51f472910c5401ce210aa2 (diff) | |
| download | current-b2bf157be93287e947cec2f8792b0fa912493a34.tar.gz current-b2bf157be93287e947cec2f8792b0fa912493a34.tar.xz | |
Mon Jul 15 00:26:07 UTC 201920190715002607
a/bzip2-1.0.8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Fixes security issues:
bzip2recover: Fix use after free issue with outFile.
Make sure nSelectors is not out of range.
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3189
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-12900
(* Security fix *)
a/kernel-generic-4.19.59-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-4.19.59-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-4.19.59-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-4.19.59-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-4.19.59-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libwebp-1.0.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/dovecot-2.3.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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 18281e6fe..4ae24c443 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Jul 10 19:33:37 UTC 2019 +Sun Jul 14 22:37:57 UTC 2019 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 4.19.58 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 4.19.59 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-4.19.58-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.58-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-4.19.59-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.59-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-12.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 4.19.58 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.59 -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 4.19.58 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 4.19.59 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.58 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.59 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |