On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 16:58:44 -0500, Kevin O'Neil <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings everyone, > I am hoping that someone can help me decide if I should upgrade or > not. I am very afraid to upgrade when FC12 comes out because I have > tweaked almost every part of FC9 to get it to work the way I want. > It works 110% right now. Is there a security issue that I should be > aware of? Yes. There have been several null pointer deferences found in the kernel since F9 stopped getting updates. If a hostile person can get arbitrary code to run on your machine, they can get root access. You can look at the security updates for F11 to get a pretty good idea of vulernabilities that have been fixed since F9 stopped getting updates. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
