On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:37:47AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:04:22PM +0900, Horms wrote: > > On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 03:08:51PM +0900, Horms wrote: > > > Hi Martin, > > > > > > Steve Langasek asked me to get in contact with you in regards > > > to kernel security updates for sarge. I am happy to report > > > that I and other members of the kernel team have been keeping > > > the kernel-source for both 2.4.27 and 2.6.8 up to date in SVN. > > > And as of yesterday afternoon I have no outstanding security > > > bugs for either. > > > > ... had no outstanding secuirty issues. > > > > I just noticed CAN-2005-1263, otherwise known as Bug #308724 and #308634 > > I will work on getting this into SVN asap. I believe it applies > > to both 2.4.27 and 2.6.8, although I have not investigated. > > > > There is also a quite severe problem with the header packages > > on powerpc, Sven Luther is working on a fix for this. When I say > > severe, I understand that they are completely broken. > > I think this applies to both 2.4.27 and 2.6.8. See Bug #308639. > > Well, not broken, they just can't be used to build third party modules with > them. > > Fix is trivial, and only involves adding a couple of symlinks in the right > place, no change to the binaries at all. In the extreme case, it could be > fixed by using an external package depending on both kernel-headers and > kernel-build and putting the symlink there, or with an errata giving the > script used to fix this issue.
I have put this fix in SVN for 2.6.8 and am doing a build now. -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
