Re: How do I get a warm fuzzy feeling about kernel upgrade?
jse@xmission.com writes:
>
> I have reaffirmed that I'm clueless this morning. I found this security
> bulletin:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-2003/msg00212.html
> this morning. This worried me since I just installed debian last week on
> a server directly connected to the internet. I'm confused because it says
> in the text that the update is "version 2.4.18-14 of the i386 kernel
> images" but in the list of upgraded packages all of them seem to have just
> a -12
The security bulletin was in error. The updated kernel *source*
package version was -14; the i386 kernel image packages were -12.
If you look at your:
/usr/share/doc/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-k7/changelog.gz
you'll see:
. Added TASK_SIZE check to do_brk in mm/mmap.c
at the top. That's the fix.
--
Kevin <buhr@telus.net>
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