Re: [opensuse-kernel] Security updates for 13.2

Marcus Meissner <[email protected]> Sat, 11 Jul 2015 12:13:50 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.suse.security,gmane.linux.suse.kernel
Organization	SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Dilip Upmanyu, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 12:08:07PM +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> (crossposted to opensuse-kernel and opensuse-security, because I'm
> really not sure who is in charge of this)
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I just noticed that security updates have been released for mainline
> 3.10, 3.14, 4.0 and 4.1 series.
> 
> The latest released kernel update for 13.2 is almost 3 months old.
> 
> What is the advised way to keep a 13.2 installation secure?
> Or do all those problems of older and newer mainline kernels not affect
> the openSUSE kenrel?

The current kernel security issues are not really critical issues,
so we collect them for a while before releasing newer updates.

But if someone (you) is asking, it is probably an idea to run a collected
update again.

Ciao, Marcus
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