dirty cow und 12.04 LTS

[Colin Law]

On 27 October 2016 at 15:58, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 15:39:13 +0200 (CEST), Lentes, Bernd wrote:
> >http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-5195.html
>
> From the above link:
> "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin):   ignored (end-of-life)"
>                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^
>                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> >linux-generic-lts-quantal E: Changelog download failed: 404  Not Found
> >E: Couldn't find a changelog for linux-generic-lts-quantal=3.5.0.54.59
>
> The official repositories don't provide such a package:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=linux-generic-
> lts&searchon=names&suite=xenial&section=all
>
> They don't provide any 12.04.2 LTS, Precise Pangolin packages anymore.
>
> You can't run a regular "apt-get -V dist-upgrade" without replacing
> the repositories. However, you shouldn't replace the repositories with
> those of another release, instead run "do-release-upgrade", but first
> do some research and backup everything.
>

12.04 is still being supported (till next year I think) so normally
dist-upgrade will work. The problem is that the system is using a 12.10
kernel, which is EOL.

Colin
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