Stable kernel 4.4.174 released
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 4.4.174 stable kernel. The patches went outfor review on February 7; the kernel contains a backport of a fixfor the FragmentSmack denial-of-service vulnerability. "Many thanks to Ben Hutchings for this release, it's pretty much just hiswork here in doing the backporting of networking fixes to help resolve"FragmentSmack" (i.e. CVE-2018-5391)." As usual, users of thekernel series should upgrade.