Serge de Souza wrote:
Usually -AC will have refinements on stable stuff, and security bugfixes... As fas as I remember, in 2.6.x one of the aims was to provide a stable kernel every now and then, not as often as before and left the distributors and mantainers do the patching. Alan Cox is, as far as I know, the mantainer for the 2.6 branch now, so using his patches would be a rather logical action.Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am Do, den 13.01.2005 schrieb O'Neill, Donald (US - Deerfield) um 15:55:
As for the local root exploit, unless you have untrusted users with shell accounts on your machine, the 'local exploit' is a not a issue.
No, no and no. Possible local root exploits are always, under each circumstance a risk. There is no excuse not updating by installing a bugfix kernel.
Alexander
Is there a patch set for the 2.6.10 kernel that only includes security fixes and no experimental stuff ? I am currently using a vanilla kernel and would like to patch it but can't really find anything kernelnewbies says that "ac" is stable but http://kernel.org/patchtypes/ac.html says the opposite.
Serge
