Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-14959 (dracut)
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| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: dracut-018-60.git20120927.fc16 | |
| Date: | Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:22:41 +0000 | |
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-14959 2012-09-28 07:58:06 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : dracut Product : Fedora 16 Version : 018 Release : 60.git20120927.fc16 URL : https://dracut.wiki.kernel.org/ Summary : Initramfs generator using udev Description : Dracut contains tools to create a bootable initramfs for 2.6 Linux kernels. Unlike existing implementations, dracut does hard-code as little as possible into the initramfs. Dracut contains various modules which are driven by the event-based udev. Having root on MD, DM, LVM2, LUKS is supported as well as NFS, iSCSI, NBD, FCoE with the dracut-network package. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: dracut-018-60.git20120927 - run dracut-shutdown.service before shutdown.target Resolves: rhbz#840120 - do not create the initramfs world readable Resolves: rhbz#859448 - mdraid: do the dracut shutdown, if a md raid is found - mdraid: handle nested md raids - mdraid: wait until devices are clean on shutdown Resolves: rhbz#732297 rhbz#840562 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Sep 27 2012 Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com> 018-60.git20120927 - run dracut-shutdown.service before shutdown.target Resolves: rhbz#840120 - do not create the initramfs world readable Resolves: rhbz#859448 - mdraid: do the dracut shutdown, if a md raid is found - mdraid: handle nested md raids - mdraid: wait until devices are clean on shutdown Resolves: rhbz#732297 rhbz#840562 * Wed Jun 6 2012 Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com> 018-55.git20120606 - update to F17 version - support for /usr mounting in the initramfs - better hostonly support - faster image creation * Mon Mar 26 2012 Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com> 013-22 - added convertfs dracut module - added mdraid --offroot support * Mon Jan 23 2012 Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com> 013-21 - include /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.order * Tue Dec 13 2011 Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com> 013-20 - do not wait for raid to be synced Resolves: rhbz#757361 * Thu Nov 17 2011 Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com> 013-19 - fixed mdraid handling Resolves: rhbz#751667 - fix cdrom polling - support opening crypto devs with file support install_items in dracut.conf Resolves: rhbz#751640 - include usb storage drivers Resolves: rhbz#716799 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #859448 - CVE-2012-4453 dracut: Creates initramfs images with world-readable permissions (information disclosure) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=859448 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update dracut' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...