[Secure-testing-team] DTSA for 2.6.8 and 2.4.27

Horms horms at debian.org
Sat Sep 10 05:05:15 UTC 2005


On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 08:05:58AM -0500, Micah Anderson wrote:
> Moritz Muehlenhoff schrieb am Friday, den 09. September 2005:
> 
> > Micah Anderson wrote:
> > > Neither of these advisories is a typical DTSA, as we normally we only do
> > > advisories for things that are blocked from reaching testing by some other
> > > issue, but I think that it would be good to do these two advisories because
> > > of the sheer number of security holes fixed as well as the necessary upgrade
> > > path that people need to take if they wish to maintain the integrity of
> > > their machines.
> > 
> > Good idea, but I'd suggest to make a clean-sweep run over all kernel
> > issues before. Some entries definitely need updating, (wrt to 2.4/2.6
> 
> You mean cross reference all the entries in CAN/list to make sure there
> isn't anything missing or still has a TODO label?
> 
> > mapping and IIRC Horms has some mails pending as well, he told me some days
> > ago. 
> 
> I'll check with horms about any additional pending fixes.

Other than 2.6.13.1, I do not have anything pending.
But I could well have missed stuff. Actually, thats 
extremely likely. So please feel free to post missing
patches.

-- 
Horms




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