How do I know if my 13-stable has security patches?

Karl Denninger karl at denninger.net
Fri Feb 26 15:27:03 UTC 2021


On 2/26/2021 10:22, Ed Maste wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 16:57, Karl Denninger <karl at denninger.net> wrote:
>> The time (and present items) on a given machine to know whether it is
>> covered by a given advisory under the "svn view of the world" is one
>> command, and no sources.  That is, if the advisory says "r123456" has
>> the fix, then if I do a "uname -v" and get something larger, it's safe.
> Yes, as previously stated the commit count will be included in future
> advisories.
>
> On stable/13 today uname will include:
> uname displays e.g. stable/13-n244688-66308a13dddc
>
> The advisory would report stabl/13-n244572
>
> 244688 is greater than 244572 so will have the fix.
Sounds like the issue has been addressed -- thank you!
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