-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-16448 2012-10-19 14:55:11 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : dracut Product : Fedora 18 Version : 024 Release : 5.git20121019.fc18 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 ifup exit code - fixed default "rd.auto" parameter setting - only 'warn' not 'error', if we don't strip the initramfs - do not overwrite ifcfg from anaconda - ssh-client module fixes - strip binaries in the initramfs by default now - fixes for systemd and crypto - new dracut kernel command line options "rd.auto" - new dracut kernel command line options "rd.noverifyssl" - new dracut option "--kernel-cmdline" and "kernel_cmdline" option for default parameters - fix for kexec in shutdown, if not included in initramfs - no more iscsi_wait_scan - curl: give info what URL failed, support https - use findmnt - systemd: wait for crypto target - only install crypttab in host-only mode - add udev groups - fixed busybox install - fixed rd.luks.allow-discards manpage and handling - force install dm_mod - do not create the initramfs world reabable - add nameserver even for dhcp - fallback to reboot if shutdown was called without a parameter -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
