From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: The IPFire Project To: ipfire-announce@lists.ipfire.org Subject: IPFire 2.19 - Core Update 107 released Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 19:31:13 +0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============3104398394896678361==" List-Id: --===============3104398394896678361== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://www.ipfire.org/news/ipfire-2-19-core-update-107-released This is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.19 =E2=80=93 Core Upda= te 107. It mainly comes with a fix for the Dirty COW vulnerability in the Linux kernel a= nd fixes various issues with the latest DNS proxy update in Core Update version 106. Dirty COW This update patches the IPFire Linux kernel against a recently disclosed vulnerability called Dirty COW [1]. This is a local privilege escalation bug which could be used by a local attacker to gain root privileges. Misc. * A further patch fixes Intel processors with AES-NI which=E2=80=99s hardware= supports =C2=A0 encryption with 256 and 192 bit key length, but was not properly imple= mented =C2=A0 in the Linux kernel * A fix to show the new unbound DNS proxy in the log section of the web user =C2=A0 interface * hdparm 9.5.0 and libjpeg 1.5.1 have been updated We are currently crowdfunding a Captive Portal for IPFire [2] and would like = you to ask to check it out and support us! Please help us to support the work on IPFire Project with your donation [3]. [1]=C2=A0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_COW [2]=C2=A0http://wishlist.ipfire.org/wish/the-ipfire-captive-portal [3]=C2=A0http://www.ipfire.org/donate --===============3104398394896678361==--