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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1434-1 linux-base -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

20 Jul 2018

Affected Packages:

linux-base

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 702482, Bug 761614.

More information:

The linux-base package has been updated to support the package of Linux 4.9 that was recently added to Debian 8. This resolves a dependency that was not satisfiable by the jessie and jessie-security suites.

This update also fixes a bug in version ordering in the linux-version command, corrects the package name printed by the perf command when linux-perf-4.9 is needed, and adds bash-completion support for the perf command.

For Debian 8 Jessie, the new version is 4.5~deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your linux-base packages.

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