Re: My machine was hacked - possibly via sshd?

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From: "Michelle Konzack" <linux4michelle@freenet.de>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: My machine was hacked - possibly via sshd?

>> > Your kernel is old.  That's for starters.  2.4.30 is in rc2 now.  It
>> > alone fixes some security issues.  2.4.18 is ancient, and there's most
>>
>> But 2.4.18 is the Debian stable kernel, which gets security updates
>> and patches, no?

>NO, since one year.

Is there an official policy on what gets updated and what not? Like Malcolm
Ferguson I was under the impression that debian stable was always updated
with the latest security patches. Besides kernel-images are there other
packages that do not get updated?

Regards,

Martijn Brinkers