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Does anyone offer security fix backports for Linux? If I'm stuck on Linux 5.1, is my only recourse to update or patch it myself?
by phendrenad2 5y ago
Does anyone offer security fix backports for Linux? If I'm stuck on Linux 5.1, is my only recourse to update or patch it myself?
- singron 5y agoThere are Linux stable branches that backport fixes. It looks like all the affected branches have the fix now: linux-5.16.y linux-5.15.y linux-5.10.y linux-5.4.y linux-rolling-lts linux-rolling-stable EDIT: notably absent are linux-5.1.y and other non-lts releases. If you can't stay on the most recent stable release, you should use lts releases.
- adfsdsaf 5y agoIf you're stuck on 5.1, you probably have a ton of other vulnerabilities too. 5.1 isn't even an LTS release, so support for it was dropped in 2019. 5.4 is the first LTS of 5.x, and is supported through 2025. You should try to find a way to get on an LTS kernel, or plan on managing a lot of kernel patches.
- rwmj 5y agoIt's a one line patch in old code so it should apply easily. However if you encounter this kind of problem a lot I'd highly advise some kind of long-term supported Linux distribution. (I work at Red Hat on RHEL, and that's what people pay us for)
- _rdvw 5y agoYou can use my program here along with its database: https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/CVE_Checker https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/CVE_Checker Just adjust the loose versioning check to apply 5.4 patches to 5.1.