Umea, Sweden, 2004-02-08, 14:30 CET
Hereby I wish to announce Linux-kernel v2.0.40, aka “The
Moss-covered Tortoise”. This release fixes several remote
information-leaks, a few local exploits, possible group descriptor
corruption for ext2fs, a few network related issues, a few SUS/LSB
compliance issues, and various other minor changes. A complete
changelog can be found at the same places the kernel itself can be
downloaded.
This upgrade is of medium urgency, and is a recommended upgrade
if you experience problems. This kernel is only maintained, not
developed, and hence, if you miss support for hardware/software or
any feature, then you should consider upgrading to either the
latest v2.4.xx kernel or the latest v2.6.xx kernel.
The kernel can be found at:
ftp ftp.xx.kernel.org (where xx is your
country-code)
Complete tarballs (compressed with gz and bzip2
respectively):
/pub/linux/kernel/v2.0/linux-2.0.40.tar.gz
/pub/linux/kernel/v2.0/linux-2.0.40.tar.bz2
As a patch to be applied on top of the v2.0.39 kernel-tree
(compressed with gz and bzip2 respectively):
/pub/linux/kernel/v2.0/patch-2.0.40.gz
/pub/linux/kernel/v2.0/patch-2.0.40.bz2
Note that some mirrors might not keep both
compression-formats.
Regards: David Weinehall