Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:56:59 -0300 (BRT) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: Linux v2.6.0-test1 |
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2003-07-14 at 12:39, John Bradford wrote: > > > > > The point of the test versions is to make more people realize that they > > > > > need testing > > > > > > > > Are all the known security issues in 2.4 now fixed in 2.6.0-test1? > > > > > > No, and several more have been added in 2.6-test only. > > > > As far as I know, they are only information disclosure ones, not > > directly exploitable vulnerabilities, or am I wrong? > > Last time I checked there were remote DoS attacks and local root attacks > present in 2.5.7x > > > > > This has been the only major reason for keeping of most of my > > > > production machines running 2.4 for quite a while. If not, can we get > > > > the fixes in at the earliest opportunity? > > > > > > Sure.. send the fixes to Linus > > > > Is anybody even keeping track of this, though? Picking thorough LKML > > to see what did and didn't go in doesn't seem particularly exciting to > > me. > > Then you'll just have to wait a few months
I will start looking at 2.4 security fixes which are not applied in 2.6.
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