On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:31:07AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 03:34:21AM +0000, Stephen Walton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone seen the announcement about a root exploit > > in the 2.2.15 and earlier kernel versions as posted
> yes ages ago. > > Does this apply to the debian kernels? > > depends what debian kernel, i think some of them had backported > patches, but really there is no reason to be running anything that > old. upgrade to 2.2.18. I purposely have a policy of not upgrading software (including the kernel) unless there is a good reason to do so, either with new functionality that is required, or for security reasons. I have no objections to upgrading in this instance, but I was more concerned that a search on Debians archives did not show this as a security issue. -- Stephen Walton
