From bae5a7d8587d3c1c7fd0ca466a80bb744833c012 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick J Volkerding Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 22:50:28 +0000 Subject: Tue Sep 20 22:50:28 UTC 2022 a/kernel-generic-5.19.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-huge-5.19.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-modules-5.19.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. d/kernel-headers-5.19.10-x86-1.txz: Upgraded. k/kernel-source-5.19.10-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. l/expat-2.4.9-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: Heap use-after-free vulnerability in function doContent. Expected impact is denial of service or potentially arbitrary code execution. For more information, see: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-40674 (* Security fix *) l/libffi-3.4.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. xap/mozilla-firefox-105.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/105.0/releasenotes/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-40/ https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-40959 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-40960 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-40958 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-40961 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-40956 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-40957 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-40962 (* Security fix *) xap/mozilla-thunderbird-102.3.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. This is a bugfix release. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/102.3.0/releasenotes/ isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt. kernels/*: Upgraded. usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt. --- README.initrd | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.initrd') diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 8b739c9ec..fa16d3f68 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu Sep 15 20:01:45 UTC 2022 +Tue Sep 20 22:40:08 UTC 2022 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 5.19.9 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.19.10 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-5.19.9-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.19.9-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.19.10-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.19.10-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-30.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 5.19.9 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.19.10 -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 5.19.9 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.19.10 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.19.9 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.19.10 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? -- cgit v1.2.3-79-gdb01