2.4.22 kernel upgrade... howto knightfoo?

[ricochet81]

I saw my stable deb box has a 2.4.22 kernel running... rather surprising since stable is back at 2.2 still. Anyway, in leiu of the security holes that brought the deb servers down, and my inability to just apt-get a new 2.4.23 kernel from the "stable" section, can you provide a simple, unofficial if necessary, howto to upgrade my SB deb box's kernel?

I have had experience compiling a new kernel and such, but I fear one error and the box will be hosed when i reboot. I'm sure you understand my fear. I just need a little reassurance of the best way (and steps) to do this. Maybe get a .deb package from somewhere? I'm new to deb, so any direction would be appreciated. Thanks.

[BlackNet]

Hello,

Woody, i.e. 'stable' you have both 2.2 or 2.4 options on startup. 3.0r2 is shipping with 2.2.20. Personaly i'm glad to see 2.4.22 custom rolled on the box. It tells me that serverbeach has taken extra steps to insure security measures.

As for custom rolling 2.4.23 you can cp /boot/config.2.4.22 to your kernel-source directory and everything should work smoothly. If you are unsure you can test the kernel out on a local box then upload && dpkg -i foo.deb, this will assure you it does work correctly.

With the brk() compromise version 2.2.x of the kernel is immune to this issue, as is 2.6.0-test6, released on Sep 28 01:33. The 'fix' is 2 lines.

Ed