linux-vulnerability-mitigation

One package to mitigate them all

Debian introduced linux-vulnerability-mitigation package in May 2026, as a response to recent badly handled severe vulnerability cases. Goal of the package is to provide mitigations against different vulnerabilities until they’ve been properly handled elsewhere, eg. in Linux kernel.

I happened to create same stuff myself in the end of April, but that is targeting my own use-cases.

commit c40e14e076441450ce6585283a3dea7cec9df985
Author: Ville Korhonen <ville@xd.fi>
Date:   Thu Apr 30 11:48:15 2026 +0300

    Add ypcs-security package for patching
    
    This package will now be distributed via the -urgent channel, to make
    security patching slightly easier on remote systems.
    
    Impact: major