Fedora alert FEDORA-2016-94d1c64fe2 (dracut)
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| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: dracut-044-21.fc24 | |
| Date: | Thu, 10 Nov 2016 03:35:06 +0000 (UTC) | |
| Message-ID: | <20161110033506.C506F6070D3C@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-94d1c64fe2 2016-11-09 22:53:19.739508 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : dracut Product : Fedora 24 Version : 044 Release : 21.fc24 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: - fixed permissions of initramfs file, if microcode is prepended (CVE-2016-8637) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1392435 - CVE-2016-8637 dracut: Local information disclosure of initramfs when early cpio is used [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1392435 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade dracut' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgr... 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 To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org