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Your headline's misleading. Red Hat knows it's long been fixed in the LTS kernels, but it still needs patching in the RHEL kernels. Generally speaking, current
by CrankyBear 6y ago
Your headline's misleading. Red Hat knows it's long been fixed in the LTS kernels, but it still needs patching in the RHEL kernels. Generally speaking, current LTS kernels are not used in older Linux distros.
- artistsvoid 6y agoModerators can of course change the title, I don't think it's misleading and I was not trying to be. I guess 'reports' could be changed into 'finds' and it could be mentioned that it was found 'in its Linux kernel', not sure when the character limit would hit. 'current LTS kernels are not used in older Linux distros' - not sure what your point is with this. They absolutely could have used / can use LTS kernels if they wanted to or they could merge LTS-kernel changes which they apparently don't.
- infogulch 6y ago"Red Hat finds security issue in Linux Kernel that had been fixed upstream for 17 months"
- m4r71n 6y agoMore like "Red Hat assigned a CVE to a security issue reported 17 months ago": https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1708775 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1708775 I don't see what the big news here is, it's merely identifying a vulnerability with a proper CVE ID, end of story. The issue itself does not even have a serious security impact so it will likely never be fixed in RHEL.
- kasabali 6y ago> Generally speaking, current LTS kernels are not used in older Linux distros Debian always uses longterm branches. Sometimes Ubuntu, too.