Debian 8 Gets New Kernel Update, Five Vulnerabilities and a Regression Patched

Juniya

April 3, 2024

Debian 8 gets new kernel update five vulnerabilities and a regression patched Exactly one week after the release of the major kernel update for the Debian GNU/Linux 8 “Jessie” operating system on June 28, the Debian Project, through Salvatore Bonaccorso, has released a new Linux kernel security update.

Debian Security Advisory DSA-3616-1 was published on July 4, 2016, and it looks like, this time, the kernel update patches the long-term supported Linux 3.16 kernel packages of the current stable Debian GNU/Linux release, codenamed Jessie, to fix a total of 5 vulnerabilities that have been discovered upstream.

Additionally, the Debian kernel developers have patched a regression that was introduced during last week’s major kernel update in the ebtables facility. Therefore, all users of the Debian GNU/Linux 8 “J… (read more)

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