Question about "New kernel packages fix several vulnerabilities"
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> Debian Security Advisory DSA 311-1 security@debian.org
> http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman
> June 8th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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> Package : kernel
> Vulnerability : several
> Problem-Type : local, remote
> Debian-specific: no
> CVE Ids : CVE-2002-0429 CAN-2003-0001 CAN-2003-0127 CAN-2003-0244 CAN-2003-0246 CAN-2003-0247 CAN-2003-0248 CAN-2003-0364
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> A number of vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel.
I'm not clear about this:
> For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems are fixed in the
> 2.4.20 series kernels based on Debian sources.
Does that mean only the 2.4.20 *debian* kernel sources are fixed? I'm
running 2.4.20 on all my machines but a few were built from kernel.org
2.4.20 source instead of the kernel-source debian package.
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Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org
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