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Debian Bookworm and Bullseye Users Receive Important Linux Security Updates (9to5linux.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

As a headline reader I'd sure hope users of these distros receive security updates

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Still on 6.1.0-17 and nothing shows up after sudo apt update.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You're good. That's the latest image, it's just the confusing Debian version scheme where the package version is not the same as the kernel version. Debian package version 6.1.0-17 = kernel version 6.1.69-1

See:

$ uname -a
Linux debian12 6.1.0-17-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.69-1 (2023-12-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux

And:

$ dpkg-query --list linux-image-6.1.0-17-amd64
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                       Version      Architecture Description
+++-==========================-============-============-=================================
ii  linux-image-6.1.0-17-amd64 6.1.69-1     amd64        Linux 6.1 for 64-bit PCs (signed)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

6.1.0-17 is the one I received today. I was on 6.1.0-16 until now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had a security download (but not yet installed) ready yesterday. Logged off without installing. Turned on my device today and couldnt log in. Checked my pwd 3 times before seeing "authentication service not working " iirc.

After reboot it installed and logging in worked.

Is this related or not and is it expected? Not being able to log in without a mandatory patch first so to say?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

no that just sounds like a bug

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Good thing my server still runs Jessie!