Re: [blfs-support] Security Advisories now live
On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 09:57:58PM -0500, Don Cross via blfs-support wrote: > On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 9:46 PM Ken Moffat via blfs-support < > blfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > > > The new pages for Security Advisories are now live. > > > > To see the LFS advisories, go to > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/read.html and follow the links > > in the Current Stable paragraphs (svn, systemd). > > > > To see the BLFS advisories, go to > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/read.html and follow the links > > in the Current Stable paragraphs (svn, systemd). > > > > ĸen > > > > That's great that you are helping us stay on the cutting edge of security > issues. I find it fascinating and educational. > > I did see a small typo on > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/advisories/ > "... keep on top of htat ..." > > Don Thanks. I seem to accidentally type th as ht a lot of the time. I'm sure there are other typos and infelicities, but I'm trying to take a break from it for the moment. ĸen -- Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code "418 I'm a teapot". The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout. -- rfc 2324 (1st April 1998) -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [blfs-support] Security Advisories now live
On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 9:46 PM Ken Moffat via blfs-support < blfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > The new pages for Security Advisories are now live. > > To see the LFS advisories, go to > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/read.html and follow the links > in the Current Stable paragraphs (svn, systemd). > > To see the BLFS advisories, go to > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/read.html and follow the links > in the Current Stable paragraphs (svn, systemd). > > ĸen > That's great that you are helping us stay on the cutting edge of security issues. I find it fascinating and educational. I did see a small typo on http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/advisories/ "... keep on top of htat ..." Don -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [blfs-support] Is it worth jumping in for me? / Can LFS be even more simple?
On 2/6/21 8:16 PM, 5--- via blfs-support wrote: Sure, that is the 'init' program (/sbin/init) which needs to be replaced. Than you can strip down your system to be a two-files-OS (1. kernel, 2. your init). Doubt whether it is really fun ;-) Thank you everyone for the replies. I tried this on a full linux distro and ran into trouble. A tutorial on this would be interesting. How to put together a kernel, bootloader, and init script or binary (preferably one simple enough you can write yourself), sorting out the initrd if necessary, statically compiling any binaries so you can start with an absolute minimum. Well you theoretically could modify a shell to run without glibc, but portions of it would need to drop to assembly language to make calls ot the kernel. You can read this to give you clues: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html Have fun. -- Bruce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
[blfs-support] Security Advisories now live
The new pages for Security Advisories are now live. To see the LFS advisories, go to http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/read.html and follow the links in the Current Stable paragraphs (svn, systemd). To see the BLFS advisories, go to http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/read.html and follow the links in the Current Stable paragraphs (svn, systemd). ĸen -- Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code "418 I'm a teapot". The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout. -- rfc 2324 (1st April 1998) -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [blfs-support] Is it worth jumping in for me? / Can LFS be even more simple?
Sure, that is the 'init' program (/sbin/init) which needs to be replaced. Than you can strip down your system to be a two-files-OS (1. kernel, 2. your init). Doubt whether it is really fun ;-) Thank you everyone for the replies. I tried this on a full linux distro and ran into trouble. A tutorial on this would be interesting. How to put together a kernel, bootloader, and init script or binary (preferably one simple enough you can write yourself), sorting out the initrd if necessary, statically compiling any binaries so you can start with an absolute minimum. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
[blfs-support] Firefox
Yesterday mozilla released firefox-78.7.1 with a security fix described as Critical. It has now been clarified that this only applied to Windows systems. Therefore, if you have not already updated beyond 78.7.0 there is no reason to do so. ĸen -- Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code "418 I'm a teapot". The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout. -- rfc 2324 (1st April 1998) -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
