On 12/ 9/16 09:07 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:

On another hand, is there a particular benefit of patching older versions in 
userland as cve fixes come out, rather than taking the newest release (assumed 
to include all bugfixes known to authors)?

It depends. When fix lands to new major release, it's worth patching.
We don't want to do major updates just to fix security issues.
They usually contain not only new features, but also new bugs.
Or can just break API/ABI.
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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department

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