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Re: Another stable vs. testing inconsistency



On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:43:10 -0400 Michael S. Gilbert wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:00:46 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > Hi all!
> > 
> > I found another vulnerability in the tracker that shows up as fixed in
> > lenny, and as unfixed in squeeze, despite the package version is the
> > *same* in the two branches.
> > 
> > http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2009-2584
> 
> fixed.

Thanks a lot!  ;-)

> i keep overlooking squeeze when i do these updates.  i will
> force myself to remember next time.

Good!  :)

> 
> > BTW, the fix seems to be
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/20/348
> > which, IIUC, has not yet been applied to the upstream mainline kernel
> > 
> > I haven't even found a Debian BTS bug report: should an important (?)
> > bug be filed?
> 
> the vulnerable code was introduced after 2.6.26, so only unstable's
> kernel is affected. the kernel-sec team is aware and tracking the
> problem, so a report is not necessary.

Fair enough!


Thanks for your quick reaction and reply.
Bye.


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