Re: vulnerability in 8.6
Hi Richard,
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 09:25:11PM +0100, Richard Waterbeek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wrote that I searched for a '686' image but that was meant for this
> VirtualBox I have, my 64Bit processor only can emulate 32Bit.
>
> uname -ar gave; Linux <hostname> 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1
> +deb8u1 (2016-09-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> dpkg -l | grep linux-image gave; linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64
> 3.16.36-1+deb8u1
>
> I ran; sudo apt-get update, followed by sudo apt-get upgrade and that
> gave;
>
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> tzdata tzdata-java
> 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 268 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 16.4 kB of additional disk space will be used.
>
> This seems a little unexpected to me. A real long time ago I update just
> the kernel once on a Slackware machine and finished that with;
> update-grub.
>
> I thought a sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 followed by
> update-grub is sufficient to upgrade the kernel.
>
> So I did; sudo apt-get install, preceded by sudo apt-get upgrade and
> that gave;
>
> linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 is already the newest version.
>
> And just now it is clear to me that something must be wrong, so thank
> you for helping enabling me to clarify my questions.
>
> Hoping to hear from you what to do now.
Could you check that you have the security archive in your
sources.list?
Cf. https://www.debian.org/security/#keeping-secure
Regards,
Salvatore
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