dirty cow und 12.04 LTS

[Lentes, Bernd]

----- On Nov 3, 2016, at 2:15 PM, Bernd Lentes bernd.lentes at helmholtz-muenchen.de wrote:

> ----- On Oct 28, 2016, at 3:41 PM, Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> On 27 October 2016 at 17:23, Lentes, Bernd
>> <bernd.lentes at helmholtz-muenchen.de> wrote:
>>> i installed this kernel:
>>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/kernel/linux-image-3.2.0-113-generic
>> 
>> 
>> No no no!
>> 
>> That's the wrong way to do it.
>> 
>> You should install the official backports package for your LTS, which
>> will give you an automatically-updating, tested, newer kernel.
>> 
>> Q.v.
>> 
>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/257617/how-can-i-upgrade-the-ubuntu-lts-kernel-to-newer/257624
>> 
> 
> Ok Liam. Where can i find that kernel ?
> The amount of possible installable kernels is making it very unclear.
> 

Hi,

currently im running:

root at PC62470:~# uname -r
3.2.0-113-generic

I think this is the "right" kernel, or ?
I don't need 3.5 because my hardware runs with 3.2.
All i need is the fix for dirty cow and that should be done with this release.

Bernd
 

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