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Is VLC from the Ubuntu LTS official repository insecure?
Often it is impossible at first sight to understand if a package in a repository is up-to-date with security fixes, because the maintainers use a different naming when applying the patches to old ...
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How do i know if my ubuntu apache version is secure?
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and checking dpkg -l apache2 gives me version 2.4.18-2ubuntu3.9. How do i know that 2ubuntu3.9 has the latest security patches listed here at https://httpd.apache.org/...
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Is it safe to manually patch bugs on an outdated operating system such as Ubuntu 10.04?
How do I manually patch security bugs safely without damaging the system for information security purposes on my Ubuntu system that I am running on one of my mobile computers? I need to find packages ...
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