On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 05:26:41AM +0000, Nick Boyce wrote:

> I'd be grateful if someone could please try to deconfuse me about what
> the current stable kernel 2.4.18 source package is ..
> 
> DSA 403-1 (http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-403) states that
> the do_brk security hole was fixed in vanilla kernel 2.4.23, and that
> 
>   "For Debian it has been fixed in version 2.4.18-12 of 
>   the kernel source packages, version 2.4.18-14 of the 
>   i386 kernel images and version 2.4.18-11 of the alpha 
>   kernel images"
> 
> But when I ran apt-get a couple of days ago, to upgrade my existing
> kernel-source package, what I got was version 2.4.18-14, rather than
> the 2.4.18-12 that the above implies.

This error in the advisory is corrected in the current version on the
website.

-- 
 - mdz

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