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kernel security upgrade - "rebase?"



I am trying to meet the challenge of the security upgrade -- [SECURITY] [DSA 4774-1] linux security update -- that was issued today.

This is an AMD Buster system:

Linux debian.localdomain 4.19.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.98-1+deb10u1 (2020-04-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux

I have noticed for several weeks that when I run "apt-get upgrade" my kernel gets held back:

"The following packages have been kept back:
  linux-image-amd64 thunderbird"

So, again today, running apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade does not install the new kernel. Here is the instruction from the security bulletin:

"For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 4.19.152-1. The vulnerabilities are fixed by rebasing to the new stable upstream version 4.19.152 which includes additional bugfixes."

I am completely at a loss to know how to "rebase" to the new version. The term "rebase" is a Debian term-of-art I have never before encountered. Can someone please point me to a step by step "Kernel Rebasing For Dummies" guide?

Thank you.


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