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Ubuntu Security Updates Are a Confusing Mess
I’ve been struggling to understand why Canonical would withhold security fixes on a Long Term Support release
Well, Canonical offer a commercial Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) subscription for some old releases, where support can be purchased beyond the normal lifecycle. is available in their repositories on a supported release is internet facing is vulnerable to remote exploitation scores 7.5 “High” on the NVD severity scale Ubuntu Pro is a hugely impressive product; supporting tens of thousands of packages for a decade is a major feat.
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