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Debian server compromise

Debian server compromise

Posted Jul 20, 2006 13:38 UTC (Thu) by freeio (guest, #9622)
Parent article: Debian server compromise

"This issue exists in Linux kernels from 2.6.13 and up to 2.6.17.3, or in 2.6.16 up to 2.6.16.23. Debian Sarge uses Linux kernel 2.6.8 and is not affected."

I just did a fresh install of Debian Sarge from the network install CDROM, and what I got does not look like 2.6.8. Look here:

tiny:/proc# cat version
Linux version 2.4.27-2-386 (horms@tabatha.lab.ultramonkey.org) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005


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Debian server compromise

Posted Jul 20, 2006 14:20 UTC (Thu) by cjwatson (subscriber, #7322) [Link]

Sarge offers both 2.4 and 2.6 options; booting with 'linux26' at the installer's boot prompt will install 2.6.

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