Fedora Core 4: FEDORA-2005-627 Critical: Depmod Crash Fix
fedora
July 22, 2005
This fixes a crash in depmod when encountering certain misbuilt modules.
Summary
The modutils package includes various programs needed for automatic
loading and unloading of modules under 2.2 and later kernels, as well
as other module management programs. Device drivers and filesystems
are two examples of loaded and unloaded modules.
This fixes a crash in depmod when encountering certain misbuilt modules.
- fix depmod segfault on bad modules (#162716)
793143670c55f106d9c55fc264758b5d SRPMS/module-init-tools-3.1-4.src.rpm
4d4304b64d2858e4a1fc533ca22c0d57 ppc/module-init-tools-3.1-4.ppc.rpm
44aafc9bc458857d9a06596e2faad46a ppc/debug/module-init-tools-debuginfo-3.1-4.ppc.rpm
b7a3ecd0ae797b1a1dfa8fd7e2f889c2 x86_64/module-init-tools-3.1-4.x86_64.rpm
16f3c9dd3bd4b2d797b3e7eb91dfe7bc x86_64/debug/module-init-tools-debuginfo-3.1-4.x86_64.rpm
290f88d47d737be8d39a4bd4162a5159 i386/module-init-tools-3.1-4.i386.rpm
0535f6f88045297be868648328c8de56 i386/debug/module-init-tools-debuginfo-3.1-4.i386.rpm
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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Name: module-init-tools
Version: 3.1
Release: 4
Summary: Kernel module management utilities.
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