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author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2023-12-13 22:01:34 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2023-12-13 23:34:24 +0100 |
commit | eafa0396dacda0c59781f54b0e9feb0dfd1d8e23 (patch) | |
tree | 70ef092b9a4225a8a7674652ba0f45b1f85ba759 /README.initrd | |
parent | ad1b1833ef7c081fab1d2fa8a45f2f663180b68d (diff) | |
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Wed Dec 13 22:01:34 UTC 202320231213220134
a/kernel-firmware-20231212_c52dc25-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-6.6.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-6.6.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-6.6.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-6.6.7-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-6.6.7-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
kde/okteta-0.26.14-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/enchant-2.6.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libxml2-2.12.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/v4l-utils-1.26.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/xorg-server-21.1.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes two security issues:
Out-of-bounds memory write in XKB button actions.
Out-of-bounds memory read in RRChangeOutputProperty and
RRChangeProviderProperty.
For more information, see:
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2023-December/061517.html
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6377
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6478
(* Security fix *)
x/xorg-server-xephyr-21.1.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/xorg-server-xnest-21.1.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/xorg-server-xvfb-21.1.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/xorg-server-xwayland-23.2.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes two security issues:
Out-of-bounds memory write in XKB button actions.
Out-of-bounds memory read in RRChangeOutputProperty and
RRChangeProviderProperty.
For more information, see:
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2023-December/061517.html
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6377
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6478
(* 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 f79537929..f27768d50 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Mon Dec 11 20:13:31 UTC 2023 +Wed Dec 13 21:49:07 UTC 2023 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 6.6.6 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 6.6.7 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-6.6.6-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-6.6.6-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-6.6.7-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-6.6.7-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-34.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 6.6.6 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.6.7 -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 6.6.6 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 6.6.7 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 6.6.6 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.6.7 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |