Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 4187-1] linux security update

2018-05-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2018-05-03 at 00:06 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 05:12:02PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > - > > Debian Security Advisory DSA-4187-1 secur...@debia

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 5173-1] linux security update

2022-07-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2022-07-04 at 22:17 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 03:49:12PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > For the oldstable distribution (buster), these problems have been > > fixed in version 4.19.249-2. > > It seems that linux-image-amd64 does

Re: Bug#1040901: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages

2023-09-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
r message for this, but I'm not exactly sure. It should be verified that this detection will work the way you expect, so that the error message doesn't change and create a support burden for the installer team. Currently kernel-wedge generates the udeb package names and would need

Re: bind9_9.5.1.dfsg.P1-1_i386.changes is NEW

2009-02-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 05:17 +, Debian Installer wrote: > Changes: bind9 (1:9.5.1.dfsg.P1-1) unstable; urgency=low > . > * New upstream patch release > - supportable version of fix from 9.5.0.dfsg.P2-5.1 > - CVE-2009-0025: Closes: #511936 > - 2475: Overly agressive cache entry re

Re: Upcoming stable point release

2012-01-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
tant changes pending, including a fix for a regression in 2.6.32-40 (currently in stable-proposed-updates). I can probably make an upload this weekend, but cannot promise that a further upload will not be needed. We need some testing of the isci driver (added in 2.6.32-40) and more generally regres

Re: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-01-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 11:05 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > (adding few CC:s to keep track on the bug) > > On dim., 2012-01-29 at 21:26 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 20:57 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > On dim., 2012-01-29 at 18:22 +0

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
need to investigate and try > that a bit. > > Ben, what would kernel team think of that? I don't speak for the whole team, but I don't see that it solves any problem. You would have to Build-Depend on exact versions of linux-source, so that you know your external patches will ap

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 06:41:43PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On mer., 2012-02-01 at 14:32 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 10:51 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > On mer., 2012-02-01 at 10:34 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > > On W

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
rking on user-space hardening. > Well IMHO, at best, one should never need to rund anything from outside > the Debian archives ;) Wishing it so doesn't make it practically possible. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

Re: possible /dev/random compromise (misplaced trust in RDRAND / Padlock entropy sources)

2013-12-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
andom, but credited as providing only a fraction of a bit of entropy. get_random_bytes() was changed to not use an architectural HWRNG. get_random_int() and get_random_bytes_arch() will use it and it is documented that they are not suitable for cryptographic purposes. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power. France is bacon. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: NSA software in Debian

2014-01-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
ing > patches for GRSecurity and LSM/SELinux and doing this for every new Debian > kernel package and new version of GRSecurity and LSM/SELinux. > > http://packages.debian.org/jessie/linux-patch-grsecurity2 [...] I bet it doesn't apply to 3.2.y any more... no, it doesn't. B