OK I did this. Does it have a huge impact on the system except mitigating the flaw ? (I don't think I have an HDLC hardware...)
2017-03-18 21:54 GMT+01:00 Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>: > On Sat, 2017-03-18 at 17:01 +0100, Julien Aubin wrote: > > Source: linux > > Severity: critical > > Tags: security > > Justification: root security hole > > > > Hi, > > > > Security issue CVE-2017-2636 (severity 7.8) has been disclosed and the > fix > > has > > been provided for Jessie and Wheezy. The problem is that there's as of > now > > no > > fix available for sid and stretch while things become more and more > critical > > due to the severity of the issue. > > > > Kernel 4.9.15 contains a fix for this. Could you please integrate it > ASAP on > > Stretch ? > [...] > > Note that we already documented a mitigation for this in the DSA. > > Ben. > > -- > Ben Hutchings > Editing code like this is akin to sticking plasters on the bleeding > stump > of a severed limb. - me, 29 June 1999 > >
