Announce: modutils 2.3.21 is available

From: Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Date: Wed Nov 22 2000 - 07:25:17 EST

This is the "never release a security fix in a hurry" release. The
security fixes in modutils 2.3.20 had some side effects on some config
files. Linus knocked back environment variable MOD_SAFEMODE, instead
the kernel propagates the real uid that caused modprobe to be invoked.

ftp://ftp.>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.3

patch-modutils-2.3.21.bz2 Patch from modutils 2.3.20 to 2.3.21
modutils-2.3.21.tar.bz2 Source tarball, includes RPM spec file
modutils-2.3.21-1.src.rpm As above, in SRPM format
modutils-2.3.21-1.i386.rpm Compiled with egcs-2.91.66, glibc 2.1.2
modutils-2.3.21-1.sparc.rpm Compiled for combined sparc 32/64

Changelog extract

        * Remove compile warnings in xstrcat.
        * snprintf cleanups.
        * Set safemode when uid != euid.
        * Strip quotes from shell responses.

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