<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 7, 2023, 13:09 Stephen Worthington <<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
No, the fixes were for fairly obscure problems, which you were not having. But the fixes were buggy, and broke mythfrontend for you.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Specifically these fixes were for security issues that presumably a media-center-only PC would never need to worry about. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My take at least from the descriptions, they appear to be mostly related to the physical plug-in and plug out process for USB tuner devices [and perhaps PCI hot-plugging][[This is only a guess because I have not taken the time to research the CVEs I'm only going off of the descriptions]]</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Unless you have untrusted people near the media center PC, or other untrusted remote users connecting to your system, or you run old [not yet patched for zero days for example] web browsers browsing the public internet without an ad blocker[which can mitigate a major sources of these malicious zero day attacks], [This is a corner case because I would assume multiple other vulnerabilities would be exploited before this one] you should not have anything to worry about in terms of security on your system. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I too concur that kernel packagers/developers will notice bug reports related to the DVB subsystem hanging, and very likely reissue updated releases with fixed patches or new patches. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For now you should be able to just to keep a stable old version of the kernel and update everything else and it should be fine.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Mike</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>