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SubjectRe: Linux v2.4.33-rc3 (and a new v2.4 maintainer)
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Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here goes the third (and hopefully last) release candidate of v2.4.33.
>
> It contains a fix for CVE-2006-2935 (locally exploitable typo in DVD
> code), ethtool oopses and an ext3 block bitmap leakage issue.
>
> Willy Tarreau has stepped up to maintain the mainline v2.4 tree, and
> will do so starting from v2.4.34.
>
> He has devoted great effort to help maintenance for the past few years.
> His -hotfix tree is quite popular amongst v2.4 users, for instance.
>
> I feel very confident in his competence for the job, knowing his good
> common sense and great technical/communication skills.

Thanks to both of you, I know a number of people who are still on 2.4
due to issues with the new development model, they all depend on you for
stable kernel fixes.
>
> Thanks Willy!
>
>
> Summary of changes from v2.4.33-rc2 to v2.4.33-rc3
> ============================================
>
> Andreas Haumer:
> [PATCH-2.4] Typo in cdrom.c
>
> Kirill Korotaev:
> EXT3: ext3 block bitmap leakage
>
> Marcelo Tosatti:
> Change VERSION to 2.4.33-rc3
>
> Willy Tarreau:
> ethtool: two oopses in ethtool_set_coalesce() and ethtool_set_pauseparam()
>


--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Obscure bug of 2004: BASH BUFFER OVERFLOW - if bash is being run by a
normal user and is setuid root, with the "vi" line edit mode selected,
and the character set is "big5," an off-by-one errors occurs during
wildcard (glob) expansion.

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