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Tolkem

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Registered: 2019-10-06

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New Debian Buster Linux Kernel Update Fixes 11 Vulnerabilities

While reading my news feed bumped into this article https://9to5linux.com/new-debian-buster … rabilities it says

The Debian Project urges all Debian GNU/Linux 10 “Buster” users to update the kernel packages in their installations to version 4.19.171-2 as soon as possible.

with

sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

I first tried just update & upgrade, but no updates were listed, then I tried the 'full-upgrade' and got

The following NEW packages will be installed:
apparmor linux-image-4.19.0-14-amd64

I didn't do anything. Is this the updated kernel? Should I proceed and install this or just wait? Thanks in advance for your answers.

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

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Re: New Debian Buster Linux Kernel Update Fixes 11 Vulnerabilities

Yes, that's the new kernel. We can confirm it works fine on our installations. You can keep the old kernel installed and switch back, if needed.

Tolkem

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Registered: 2019-10-06

Posts: 487

Re: New Debian Buster Linux Kernel Update Fixes 11 Vulnerabilities

Yes, that's the new kernel. We can confirm it works fine on our installations. You can keep the old kernel installed and switch back, if needed.

Thank you.

DAC324

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Registered: 2019-03-06

Posts: 9

Re: New Debian Buster Linux Kernel Update Fixes 11 Vulnerabilities

Yes, that's the new kernel. We can confirm it works fine on our installations. You can keep the old kernel installed and switch back, if needed.

Thank you.

And it looks like it is still compiled with GCC-8:

The major and minor version of the compiler used to compile the kernel:

gcc version 8.2.0 (Debian 8.2.0-13)

However, the GCC installed in Q4OS is version 10?