2016-11-18 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] inquiry

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From: Timothy White <ti***8@gmail.com>
Message Hash: 1b078d60a7aeae59e91197cdb6b30d325f809d6d43ef12b89c3625dae8406eba
Message ID: <CAESLx0JyuPJDg8HVPwL7aY25w4Jv9rjTb-rqES8J3VjePBHeqw@mail.gmail.com>
Reply To: <1638271011.2344652.1479459025022@mail.yahoo.com>
UTC Datetime: 2016-11-18 03:29:43 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 20:29:43 +1000

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http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-5195.html
I assume you are just doing a dist-upgrade, and not upgrading to 16.04. In
that case, it's security packages and nothing should break. You should be
fine to just do a "apt-get upgrade" and that should pull in the fixes. You
should be doing that regularly as part of normal server maintenance.

Regards

Tim



On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 6:50 PM, 'jb' via Grase Hotspot <
gr***t@grasehotspot.org> wrote:

> hi tim,
>
> what will break with grase if i will do sudo apt-get update && sudo
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> on my ubuntu 14.04 LTS server due to the dirty cow vulnerability?
>
> ty
> johnbert
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