From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752329AbYJSVbU (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:31:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751838AbYJSVbM (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:31:12 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:49372 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751824AbYJSVbL (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:31:11 -0400 Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:31:07 +0000 From: Willy Tarreau To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Linux 2.4.36.8 Message-ID: <20081019213107.GA20481@hera.kernel.org> Reply-To: w@1wt.eu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:31:10 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I've just released Linux 2.4.36.8. It contains various fixes, 3 of which are for medium local security issues. While not critical, it is suggested that 2.4.36 setups with untrusted local users upgrade to 2.4.36.8. The patch and changelog will appear soon at the following locations: ftp://ftp.all.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ ftp://ftp.all.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.36.8.bz2 ftp://ftp.all.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.36.8 Git repository: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.4.36.y.git http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.4.36.y.git Git repository through the gitweb interface: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.4.36.y.git Willy --- Summary of changes from v2.4.36.7 to v2.4.36.8 ============================================ Arjan van de Ven (1): security: avoid calling a NULL function pointer in drivers/video/tvaudio.c Erik Inge Bolsų (1): doc: mention chain-compiling for really old gccs Eugene Teo (2): CVE-2008-3275 Linux kernel local filesystem DoS Remove suid/sgid bits on truncate() (CVE-2008-4210) Gilles Espinasse (1): tcp: Clear probes_out more aggressively in tcp_ack(). Willy Tarreau (4): x86 would not build without CONFIG_VT pc_keyb: fix breakage on ia64/mips/mips64 doc: fix examples and add suggestions about depmod Change VERSION to 2.4.36.8 Yasuyuki KOZAKAI (1): netfilter: ip6t_{hbh,dst}: Rejects not-strict mode on rule insertion