Re: kernels exploitable

>Does slackware not update kernels in its distros anymore, myriad of
bugs fixed in 3.2 and we are still on 3.2.9  when its actually at
3.2.69 - Id hate to think of how rootable these 14.0 pc's are.

Actually, 14.0 is on 3.2.45, with some backports from 3.2.46, check here:

http://mirrors3.kernel.org/slackware/slackware-14.0/ChangeLog.txt

And originally 3.2.29 was shipped, not 3.2.9.

I have a script that will compile a new kernel and add it to LILO. It
prompts you to choose the latest mainline/stable/longterm kernel, or
you can feed it a version number like:

  cd /usr/src/
  sh kernelMe.sh 3.14.45

It will also accept a kernel config, or just grab the running config.
To pass it a kernel config (such as one downloaded from
slackware-current), do:

  wget http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-current/source/k/config-x86_64/config-huge-3.18.11.x64
-P /usr/src/
  KERNELCONFIG=/usr/src/config-huge-3.18.11.x64 sh kernelMe.sh

You can grab it here:
https://github.com/ryanpcmcquen/linuxTweaks/blob/master/slackware/kernelMe.sh

Good luck.


On 6/23/15, Didier Spaier <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 23/06/2015 13:35, eleksir wrote
>> <offtopic mode on>
>> Slackware have kernel-like team management but team itself is not that
>> large. And due to very conservative approach to system design and idea
>> that software should be as vanilla as possible, and whole distribution
>> _must_ be as simple as it really can be - there not too much maintainers
>> that support older releases of Slackware.
>>
>> Thinking of tendency that complexity of software increases with
>> development process progressing, Slackware maintainers should think of
>> increasing of amount of active team members. But this is separate topic
>> to discuss :)
>> <offtopic mode off>
>
> Increasing amount of active team members? Theoretically possible but
> unlikely, says my crystal ball. What Eric wrote in this paper[1] nearly
> 6 years ago still mostly stands, I think. And confirms what Alan said.
>
> Cheers, Didier
>
> [1]http://www.slackware.com/~alien/tdose2009/t-dose-slackware.pdf
>
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