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| said by oshooda  :Thanks for checking into that, and for the additional information. I was pretty sure that this wasn't that much of an issue to begin with, but was a bit curious about why that kernel would still be in use if it were really as out of date as the first few posts might make it seem. Well it always does take time for fixes to trickle down the stream so to speak. Distributions, vendors , and local administrators all tend to make decisions on whether or not to include certain patches, and whether to do so *NOW* or group a bunch together every month instead of spamming the user every other day.
From an upstream perspective this bug is an old news but certainly there might be downstream distributions that still employ a vulnerable kernel.
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