Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > linux.debian.security > #5063

Re: Vulnerabilities rated medium or low risk may not be fixed by Debian security team, is that correct?

Show all headers | View raw

* Michael Stone:

> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 02:45:29PM -0000, te3d4q@sigaint.org wrote:
>>As you asked me for a specific case, may I bring up CVE-2016-5696.
>>
>>A fix to the medium-risk vulnerability was uploaded on July 10, 2016 by
>>Eric Dumazet (cf.
>>https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/75ff39ccc1bd5d3c455b6822ab09e533c551f758)
>>
>>Ben Hutchings uploaded his work on the fix on August 12, 2016 (cf.
>>https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/kernel/linux.git/log/?h=jessie-security)
>>
>>Debian officially pushed out the fix on September 4, 2016 via DSA-3659-1.
>>
>>Are there reasons for the 23-day delay in providing end-users the patch?
>
> I don't know the specifics of this one but kernel updates are
> generally kind of a mess and in this case we're talking about an issue
> that basically boils down to a DoS for internet-facing hosts and for
> which there existed a mitigation. I'm personally not too concerned
> about the timeline. 

Right.  Debian kernel updates can only be applied with a reboot.  If
we publish a kernel update, its mere availability may put some of our
users out of compliance with their policies, which is why we batch
these updates.

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

Thread

Vulnerabilities rated medium or low risk may not be fixed by Debian  security team, is that correct? te3d4q@sigaint.org - 2016-10-11 17:10 +0200
  Re: Vulnerabilities rated medium or low risk may not be fixed by  Debian security team, is that correct? Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2016-10-11 17:30 +0200
    Re: Vulnerabilities rated medium or low risk may not be fixed by  Debian security team, is that correct? te3d4q@sigaint.org - 2016-10-11 22:10 +0200
      Re: Vulnerabilities rated medium or low risk may not be fixed by  Debian security team, is that correct? Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org> - 2016-10-11 23:10 +0200
        Re: Vulnerabilities rated medium or low risk may not be fixed by  Debian security team, is that correct? te3d4q@sigaint.org - 2016-10-12 12:50 +0200
          Re: Vulnerabilities rated medium or low risk may not be fixed by  Debian security team, is that correct? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2016-10-12 17:20 +0200
            Re: Vulnerabilities rated medium or low risk may not be fixed by  Debian security team, is that correct? te3d4q@sigaint.org - 2016-10-13 16:50 +0200
              Re: Vulnerabilities rated medium or low risk may not be fixed by  Debian security team, is that correct? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2016-10-13 20:40 +0200
                Re: Vulnerabilities rated medium or low risk may not be fixed by Debian security team, is that correct? Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> - 2016-10-18 22:30 +0200
                Re: Vulnerabilities rated medium or low risk may not be fixed by Debian  security team, is that correct? Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-10-19 17:00 +0200
                Re: Vulnerabilities rated medium or low risk may not be fixed by  Debian security team, is that correct? Alexander Schreiber <als@thangorodrim.ch> - 2016-10-20 01:00 +0200
                Re: Vulnerabilities rated medium or low risk may not be fixed by Debian  security team, is that correct? Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-10-20 02:40 +0200
          Re: Vulnerabilities rated medium or low risk may not be fixed by  Debian security team, is that correct? Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2016-10-12 22:40 +0200
            Re: Vulnerabilities rated medium or low risk may not be fixed by  Debian security team, is that correct? te3d4q@sigaint.org - 2016-10-13 16:50 +0200

csiph-web