Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages

From	Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.security
Subject	Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages
Date	2023-10-03 19:10 +0200
Message-ID	<HkR4d-dijv-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References	(2 earlier) <HhGoF-bjNA-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <HhJFT-blI5-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <Hk1yF-cMnw-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <HkOJ3-dgNl-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <HkPvr-dhja-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization	m

Show all headers | View raw

herve <herve@couvelard.com> writes:

> concerning the linux-headers. may i explain what happend to me.
>
> I reinstalled a debian 11.6 some months ago. and last week i had to
> make virtualbox functioning again. it had to "compile" some kernel
> modules and need some "headers". my kernel (from the install is 
> 5.10.0-23-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.179-3 (2023-07-27) x86_64
> GNU/Linux) so virtualbox need some 5.10.0-23 headers... you can find
> 5.10.0.20, 5.10.0.22,  5.10.0.25 in the repos from where the install
> came from.
>
> I had to surf the web and find a 5.10.0.23 in the web site of an
> university and wget it to dpkg -i it.

No, you didn't.  You could, and should, simply update the kernel with
the latest security fixes, and then install the matching headers from
the same repo.

> I do not know (maybe i could not even understand) the security
> reasons/problems of the headers versioning but it seems from my
> end-user point of view that, the actual situation that lend me to
> download from a website is the worst possible solution.

Running out-of-tree kernel code means that you can't use the security
card.  Sorry.


Bjørn

Back to linux.debian.security | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar

Thread

Bug#1040901: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2023-09-24 15:10 +0200
  Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> - 2023-09-24 23:20 +0200
    Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2023-09-25 01:10 +0200
      Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> - 2023-09-25 04:40 +0200
        Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2023-10-01 12:10 +0200
          Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-10-01 12:20 +0200
            Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2023-10-01 13:50 +0200
              Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-10-01 16:40 +0200
          Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2023-10-03 16:40 +0200
            Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages herve <herve@couvelard.com> - 2023-10-03 17:30 +0200
              Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> - 2023-10-03 19:10 +0200
                Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages herve <herve@couvelard.com> - 2023-10-03 20:40 +0200
            Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2023-10-03 19:50 +0200
              Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2023-10-03 22:00 +0200
                Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@gmail.com> - 2023-10-03 22:10 +0200
                Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2023-10-05 08:30 +0200
                Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2023-10-05 16:10 +0200
                Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2023-10-05 17:30 +0200
                Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2023-10-26 14:00 +0200
              Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> - 2023-10-04 00:00 +0200
                Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2023-10-05 08:10 +0200
  Bug#1040901: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2023-10-05 21:30 +0200
  Bug#1040901: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2023-10-07 17:00 +0200
    Bug#1040901: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2023-10-27 11:00 +0200

csiph-web