Ubuntu developers discovered exactly nothing
Only a site like Softpedia can post an article such as Newly Discovered Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect All Ubuntu Users, which starts this way: «Yesterday, November 27th, the Ubuntu developers discovered yet another security issue (actually, more than one) in the Linux kernel packages.» On the contrary, they were late to fix those kernel vulnerabilities...
Actually, the article is an embellished version of the Ubuntu advisory USN-679-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities, announcing updates for all the supported Ubuntu releases (Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, Ubuntu 7.10, Ubuntu 8.04, LTS Ubuntu 8.10). The 9 issues are described by CVE-2007-5498, CVE-2008-3831, CVE-2008-4210, CVE-2008-4554, CVE-2008-4576, CVE-2008-4618, CVE-2008-4933, CVE-2008-4934, CVE-2008-5025, CVE-2008-5029, CVE-2008-5033.
The truth is that none of the Ubuntu developers has discovered any of these vulnerabilities. What's worse, Ubuntu waited too long before the release of the patched kernel, preferring to issue a single update for all the vulnerabilities!
Let's see some striking examples:
CVE-2007-5498 was fixed by:
Red Hat EL5 on 2008-05-07
Ubuntu only did it on 2008-11-27.
CVE-2008-3831 was fixed by:
Debian Etch on 2008-10-16
Fedora 8 on 2008-10-23
Mandriva 2009 on 2008-11-05
Ubuntu only did it on 2008-11-27.
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