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Re: working for wheezy-security until wheezy-lts starts



On Sun, 2016-03-13 at 12:52 +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 11:13:31AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
[...]
> > If so I imagine this would require:
> > 
> > - identifying which CVEs are fixed in 4.1.6.1
> > - updating xen package
> > - updating the kernel packages (if this is required??? Not sure if the
> >   kernel code is considered part of the xen release or not anymore)
> The hypervisor (dom0) is built from Xen sources:
> 
>     https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/xen-hypervisor-4.1-i386
[...]

dom0 is a privileged guest, not part of the hypervisor.  It runs a PV
Linux (or other) kernel; in Debian it's the same as the regular kernel
(since wheezy).

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Larkinson's Law: All laws are basically false.

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