Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA?

[francis picabia <fpicabia@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 5:20 PM, Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> wrote:

On 09/01/18 04:36, francis picabia wrote:
> I have the option to install
> the stretch kernel and run in a hybrid version for awhile, but I'm not sure
> if there will be problems with that workaround.

The jessie-backports kernel has been updated, I believe.

The jessie-backports did work, as well as using stretch as the repo for install.

There is now a 3.16.51-3+deb8u1 released for jessie, so this is now

fixed without using a kernel from 4.* series.