Re: Kernel update status

[Sylvain Beucler <beuc@debian.org>]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:08:39PM +0200, Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 17.09.2010, 22:37 +0200 schrieb Sylvain Beucler:
> > The 2.6.32 kernel in bpo is affected by CVE-2010-3301:
> > http://sota.gen.nz/compat2/
> > (with escalation to root privs)
> > 
> > I suppose that people are working on fixing this, for squeeze and then
> > for bpo - is there a status / ETA?
> 
> The package for lenny-backports gets updated as soon as there is an
> update for unstable available.

Thanks.  I'm interested in an estimation of the time this will take,
which will help me decide whether I should just work-around the
problem (shutdown / disable 32-bit...) until the update, or if I
should patch it myself, or look for some unofficial update.

-- 
Sylvain