Bug#436267: stuck at 2.6.21

I'm just a regular Debian user who long ago built my own kernels (for a forgotten reason) and ran into headaches getting out of sync with the official config, so for the past several years I've been using the pre-built Debian kernel images, and generally been happier. But now I have a DV video cam

Bug#356329: kernel: device names are non-deterministic

Package: kernel Severity: important Whenever I boot my machine, the device names are assigned non-deterministically. There is only one disk (SATA), which is sometimes called /dev/sda and is sometimes called /dev/sdc. There is a built-in USB card-reader that also uses sd* names, but there are nev

Bug#308855: reassign

reassign 308855 kernel thanks I probably shoud reassign this to the kernel pseudo-package since it applies to ALL of the kernels.. According to iSec, there is a quick workaround for the problem, "A hotfix for this vulnerability is to disallow processes to drop core. This can be accomplishe

Bug#308855: Privilege escalation in ELF core dump (fs/binfmt_elf.c)

Package: kernel-source-2.6.8 Version: 2.6.8-15 Severity: critical Tags: security patch >From Secunia advisory http://secunia.com/advisories/15341/ DESCRIPTION: Paul Starzetz has reported a vulnerability in the Linux kernel, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privil