[Arm-dev] armv7hl kernel update for Dirty COW

Jacco Ligthart jacco at redsleeve.org
Fri Oct 21 21:54:03 UTC 2016


On 10/21/16 23:36, david wrote:
> At 02:26 PM 10/21/2016, you wrote:
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>> On Friday, 21 October, 2016 21:24 CEST, Ian Pilcher
>> <arequipeno at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Can we expect an armv7hl kernel update to address CVE-2016-5195?
>> >
>> For redsleeve (rebuild redhat/centos for armv5) I just made updated
>> kernels for the raspberrypi.
>> the source rpm should be similar for me and for armv7.
>>
>> I attached my spec file to this mail.
>>
>> Jacco
>>
>
> Does this mean that
> raspi2-redsleeve7.2-cli-0.5.img
> is no longer the "best" image file?
>
> If so, a pointer to its replacement would be greatly appreciated,
> since tomoorw I'm going to install on Rpi3. 

Well, I was not planning on updating the image each and every time there
is a new package out for something that is in the image. So yes, that is
still the latest image. The only thing you need to do is a 'yum update'
after install.

Jacco




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