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author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2021-12-15 04:34:02 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2021-12-15 08:59:46 +0100 |
commit | dd0455444d191783d5e025a25efa293a0f6272bb (patch) | |
tree | fd858afc4202f46366ac48a4879197faf79df299 /README.initrd | |
parent | b88e2bb09498e9b75508b99af4e497cdf3dd4416 (diff) | |
download | current-dd0455444d191783d5e025a25efa293a0f6272bb.tar.gz |
Wed Dec 15 04:34:02 UTC 202120211215043402
a/dialog-1.3_20211214-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-5.15.8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.15.8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.15.8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/sysvinit-3.01-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.15.8-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/patchelf-0.14.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.15.8-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/oniguruma-6.9.7.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/pipewire-0.3.41-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/libinput-1.19.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/xorg-server-1.20.13-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Fixes for multiple input validation failures in X server extensions:
render: Fix out of bounds access in SProcRenderCompositeGlyphs()
xfixes: Fix out of bounds access in *ProcXFixesCreatePointerBarrier()
Xext: Fix out of bounds access in SProcScreenSaverSuspend()
record: Fix out of bounds access in SwapCreateRegister()
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4008
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4009
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4010
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4011
(* Security fix *)
x/xorg-server-xephyr-1.20.13-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
x/xorg-server-xnest-1.20.13-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
x/xorg-server-xvfb-1.20.13-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
x/xorg-server-xwayland-21.1.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Fixes for multiple input validation failures in X server extensions:
render: Fix out of bounds access in SProcRenderCompositeGlyphs()
xfixes: Fix out of bounds access in *ProcXFixesCreatePointerBarrier()
Xext: Fix out of bounds access in SProcScreenSaverSuspend()
record: Fix out of bounds access in SwapCreateRegister()
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4008
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4009
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4010
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4011
(* Security fix *)
xap/xsnow-3.4.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
Diffstat (limited to 'README.initrd')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index a62c8213..3d76297d 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Dec 8 20:31:03 UTC 2021 +Wed Dec 15 04:21:13 UTC 2021 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 5.15.7 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.15.8 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-5.15.7-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.15.7-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.15.8-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.15.8-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-26.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 5.15.7 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.15.8 -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 5.15.7 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.15.8 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.15.7 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.15.8 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |