dirty cow und 12.04 LTS

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 15:39:13 +0200 (CEST), Lentes, Bernd wrote:
>http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-5195.html

From the above link:
"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin):	ignored (end-of-life)"
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^

>linux-generic-lts-quantal E: Changelog download failed: 404  Not Found
>E: Couldn't find a changelog for linux-generic-lts-quantal=3.5.0.54.59

The official repositories don't provide such a package:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=linux-generic-lts&searchon=names&suite=xenial&section=all

They don't provide any 12.04.2 LTS, Precise Pangolin packages anymore.

You can't run a regular "apt-get -V dist-upgrade" without replacing
the repositories. However, you shouldn't replace the repositories with
those of another release, instead run "do-release-upgrade", but first
do some research and backup everything.

Regards,
Ralf