On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:16:57 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: >On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 05:26:41AM +0000, Nick Boyce wrote: > >> DSA 403-1 (http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-403) states that >> the do_brk security hole was fixed in vanilla kernel 2.4.23, and that >> >> "For Debian it has been fixed in version 2.4.18-12 of >> the kernel source packages, version 2.4.18-14 of the >> i386 kernel images and version 2.4.18-11 of the alpha >> kernel images" >> >> But when I ran apt-get a couple of days ago, to upgrade my existing >> kernel-source package, what I got was version 2.4.18-14, rather than >> the 2.4.18-12 that the above implies. > >This error in the advisory is corrected in the current version on the >website.
Thanks. Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming: Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.
