Linux-2.6.30.2 for 6.5

Matthew Burgess matthew at linuxfromscratch.org
Fri Jul 17 17:23:33 MDT 2009


Hi all,

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0907.2/00684.html mentions that
Linux-2.6.30.2 is due out pretty soon and includes fixes for some public
security issues (one of which is http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6820).

As such, I think it's worthy of inclusion into LFS-6.5, an -rc1 of which I was
going to cut tomorrow following an overnight build including fixes for the 2
remaining 6.5 tickets.

This also leads to a further question of what our policy is/should be for
security issues like this.  I know we generally try to keep our errata page
up to date, but is it worth putting some advisory material in the book? In
particular, I think it would be prudent to advise people that it's usually
safe (and even recommened) to run the latest available -stable release for
the book's version of the kernel.

Regards,

Matt.



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