My Digital Contribution

If you haven’t heard about the new ~200 line patch which, for some users, has improved interactivity on the desktop, you can read about it here. I have released a masked version of gentoo-sources (gentoo-sources-2.6.36-r2) which contains the backport to…
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Attention all Media, Gentoo users and my fellow Gentoo devs: A new  kernel vulnerability has been reported and the gentoo bug has been filed. Within 4 hours of this filing, the kernel team has released the following: The fix for…
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In light of the recent kernel vulnerabilities, issues with our kernel stabilization policy have been brought to light. The discussion and potential solution was initiated by Kerin Millar, one of our more technical users (who I would like to see…
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Let’s talk about kernel releases, the latest two kernel vulnerabilities, and what vanilla or gentoo-sources you should be running. The two vulnerabilities I’m talking about are: CVE-2010-3301 (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337645) CVE-2010-3081 (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337659) Kernel Versions 2.6.32 >=gentoo-sources-2.6.32-r18 and vanilla-sources-2.6.32.23 contain the fixes for…
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Why isn’t any version of gentoo-sources 2.6.35 stable? There exists a bug that appears with the combination of the dhcpcd module from baselayout-1 and kernel versions >= 2.6.35. Since we could not use a stable kernel with a stable baselayout,…
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Does anyone have an suggestions for a good sized (60+ inch ) desk that can handle multiple computer systems? It would be great to have trays to hide wires and be one level to handle 3 or more computers with…
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The kernel vulnerability detailed at the register has been fixed in the follow gentoo-source versions: 2.6.32-r17 2.6.34-r10 2.6.35-r7 This vulnerability allows root access escalation on 64 bit installations.  Hardened users can read blueness’ post to the mailing list. Details on what patches are contained…
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I just released gentoo-sources 2.6.32-r14, 2.6.34-r6 and 2.6.35-r2. These all include the patch for the local privilege escalation flaw bug that was recently announced. So, I do recommended all gentoo-sources users upgrade to these latest versions. There is also a…
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If you’re network interface is having trouble getting an IP from dhcpcd on kernel version 2.6.35 please sync and update to dhcpcd-5.2.7. Thanks upstream bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16187#c12 Fix changelog: http://roy.marples.name/archives/dhcpcd-discuss/2010/0218.html