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Re: Linux kernel hardening - link restrictions



Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:
>> On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 05:11:58AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> > The longstanding link restriction patches were recently accepted by
>> > Andrew Morton and are likely to end up in Linux 3.4.  I've applied
>> > these to src:linux-2.6 in svn and they should end up in the upcoming
>> > version 3.2.9-1.
[...]
>> It's a trivial patch[1] to fix "at". How about just backporting that
>> change to stable, to avoid that known trouble too? This is what Ubuntu
>> did for the Lucid LTS release that was getting backported kernels (with
>> link restrictions) built for it.
>
> Ansgar, are you happy to do a stable update for this?  If so, we can put
> 'Breaks: at (<< 3.1.12-1+squeeze1)' in the kernel packages for wheezy
> and hopefully APT will just do the right thing without users having to
> read NEWS (which doesn't get translated).

Yes, I'll try to get to it in the next days.

Regards,
Ansgar


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