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Stable kernel updates

Stable kernel updates

Posted Aug 19, 2010 21:28 UTC (Thu) by chad.netzer (guest, #4257)
In reply to: Stable kernel updates by spender
Parent article: Stable kernel updates

"If you're not using the latest kernel.org kernel, you're only getting a fraction of the vulnerability fixes that should be backported."

It would be nice to have this statement either validated, or refuted. Which vendors are vulnerable because they have not backported a vulnerability fix, because it isn't disclosed as such in the commit log? It must be many if only "a fraction" of such commits are backported.


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