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Drawback of stable kernel development

Drawback of stable kernel development

Posted Dec 1, 2003 22:18 UTC (Mon) by miekg (subscriber, #4403)
In reply to: Drawback of stable kernel development by Felix.Braun
Parent article: A Debian kernel security update

Well, the did use pre-releases for .22. So they could just as easily have upgraded to the latest .23 pre-release when it came available.

I'm also glad it turned out to be a known exploit.


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Drawback of stable kernel development

Posted Dec 1, 2003 22:24 UTC (Mon) by southey (subscriber, #9466) [Link]

Actually I am glad that it was not a remote exploit - known or unknown!

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