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Can heimdal be upgraded in jammy?

Asked by Dag Hovland

Hi! Would it be possible to upgrade the heimdal package installed in jammy / 22.04 LTS? Currently the package is at version 7.7.0, which is affected by CVE-2022-44640, which is categorized as "critical" by many systems.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Manfred Hampl suggests this article as an answer to your question:
FAQ #3037: “no rolling release”.

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

A CVE bug can be sufficient reason for upgrading packages in older Ubuntu releases, but in many cases in Ubuntu the problem is solved by just patching the version without a version upgrade.

I suggest that you create a bug report, providing as much details as possible.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

Remark: please see also the answer that has been given to a similar request in Bug #2007272

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Dag Hovland (hovlanddag) said : 		#4

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.