Re: Current Stable Kernel 2.4.18 Source deb ?
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:16:57 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 05:26:41AM +0000, Nick Boyce wrote:
>
>> DSA 403-1 (http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-403) states that
>> the do_brk security hole was fixed in vanilla kernel 2.4.23, and that
>>
>> "For Debian it has been fixed in version 2.4.18-12 of
>> the kernel source packages, version 2.4.18-14 of the
>> i386 kernel images and version 2.4.18-11 of the alpha
>> kernel images"
>>
>> But when I ran apt-get a couple of days ago, to upgrade my existing
>> kernel-source package, what I got was version 2.4.18-14, rather than
>> the 2.4.18-12 that the above implies.
>
>This error in the advisory is corrected in the current version on the
>website.
Thanks.
Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK
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