Re: Affraid to Upgrade from FC9 to FC12

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On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 16:58:44 -0500,
  Kevin O'Neil <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greetings everyone,
> I am hoping that someone can help me decide if I should upgrade or
> not. I am very afraid to upgrade when FC12 comes out because I have
> tweaked almost every part of FC9 to get it to work the way I want.
> It works 110% right now. Is there a security issue that I should be
> aware of?

Yes. There have been several null pointer deferences found in the kernel
since F9 stopped getting updates. If a hostile person can get arbitrary
code to run on your machine, they can get root access.

You can look at the security updates for F11 to get a pretty good idea
of vulernabilities that have been fixed since F9 stopped getting updates.

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