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Re: DSA 438 - bad server time, bad kernel version or information delayed?



> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:59:06PM +0700, Jean Christophe ANDR? wrote:
> > Does any body could tell me why the /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-1-686
> > from kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 version 2.4.18-12.2 is dated
> > Feb  1 19:53 instead of today???

Le mercredi 18 février 2004 à 18h06 (+0000), Steve Kemp écrivait :
>   The obvious reason is that the kernel was built then, but the DSA
>  wasn't released until now.
>   (Maybe for coordination with other vendors, maybe to wait for all
>  the other kernels to be built so there could be a release of them
>  all at the same time).

I can see on http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0077
that this is still a candidate, but assigned since 2004.01.19, so this is
probably ok... But, it would be better if this "for security reasons"
delay had been made clear into the announcement, IMHO.
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