On Tuesday 18 March 2003 06:23 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: > My original message: > > > Erm, kernel 13mdk was originally released on 7th March, how can it have > > > fixed a vuln discovered this morning? > > --- > > Aurelien's reply: > > Because it was not discovered this morning. It was discovered days ago. But > for security reasons, the vuln was not public until the major distributors > had prepared and tested updates. > > Aurelien > > --- > > Jason's reply: > > It's 13.1-1, that's how. BUT, it seemed to break lots in my cooker, hope > it doesn't on the release system. > > Cheers > > Jason > > --- > > Well, that's two entirely different explanations. Any more candidates? > Hopefully from someone who actually *knows*? :)
It appears to be a new kernel but rebuilt with the same number because the byte count is different from the one I manually downloaded last week and the new on on the cooker mirrors. hmmm.....
