Every wednesday should be a HUG DAY!

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wednesday 19 July 2006 12:49, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:38:26 +0800
>
> Gabriel M Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
> > I completed another
> > kernel upgrade that required ANOTHER reboot. I have a feeling of deja vu
> > (M$).
>
> It isn't compulsory you know :)
>
> For example:
> >From http://ubuntu.com/usn
>
> "A race condition has been discovered in the file permission handling
>   of the /proc file system. A local attacker could exploit this to
>   execute arbitrary code with full root privileges."
>
> So - do you have potential "local attackers" ? If not, I guess you don't
> need the new kernel. If you do, then you can install it and be able to
> sleep at night... or at least have a better chance of avoiding insomnia ;-)
>
> The wizards haven't yet worked out how to update the kernel in a system
> while an existing kernel is running ( joking).
>
And if this were like MS, you'd still be waiting because it isn't the right 
day of the month for an update to be released.  Everyone would sit vulnerable 
until the calendar lined up again.

No software is perfect.  Getting fixes out there and quickly is a good thing.

Scott K