[Arm-netbook] Logging and journaling

Elena ``of Valhalla'' valhalla-l at trueelena.org
Sat Feb 11 14:50:49 GMT 2017


On 2017-02-11 at 13:21:05 +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/24/systemd_flaw/
> 
> "Newer" versions of systemd deployed by Fedora or Ubuntu have been
> secured, but Debian systems are still running an older version and
> therefore need updating.

Debian backports (when possibile) security fixes to the packages they
distribute; a quick check for the CVE listed in that article shows that
most debian systems should be fine:

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2118

note that security fixes are released through the "<release> (security)"
repository and only merged in "<release>" when there is a point update
of it (every few months for as long as the release is supported) and
most systems do have the security repository enabled (that happens by
default with the installer and is considered a good practice).

Wheezy is still listed as vulnerable, but that's because it's out of
regular support (since april 2016, currently only under LTS_ support),
and thus there won't be another point release to include the changes
published via the (security) repo.

.. _LTS: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

-- 
Elena ``of Valhalla''



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