Slackware-14.2 ChangeLog (2021-03-14)
Sun Mar 14 03:24:31 UTC 2021
Packages
Upgraded
- patches/packages/kernel-firmware-20210305_e425f76-noarch-1.txz
- patches/packages/linux-4.4.261/*
These updates fix various bugs and security issues, including the recently
announced iSCSI vulnerabilities allowing local privilege escalation.
Be sure to upgrade your initrd after upgrading the kernel packages.
If you use lilo to boot your machine, be sure lilo.conf points to the correct
kernel and initrd and run lilo as root to update the bootloader.
If you use elilo to boot your machine, you should run eliloconfig to copy the
kernel and initrd to the EFI System Partition.
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-27363
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-27364
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-27365
(* Security fix *)