Package: linux-vulnerability-mitigation
Version: 20260515.1-1
Severity: normal
Tags: security patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Debian Security Team
<[email protected]>
The man page for linux-vulnerability-mitigation contains an unfortunate typo:
"vulnerablility" instead of "vulnerability" (8 times)
Please find attached a patch to fix this oversight.
Thanks for your excellent work!
P.Seelig
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 7.0.4+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
---
linux-vulnerability-mitigation-20260515.1.orig/man/linux-vulnerability-mitigation.7.rst
+++
linux-vulnerability-mitigation-20260515.1/man/linux-vulnerability-mitigation.7.rst
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ CVE-2026-46333: ssh-keysign-pwn
Interactive usage
=================
-The linux-vulnerablility-mitigation package applies mitigations based on the
admins selection via debconf:
+The linux-vulnerability-mitigation package applies mitigations based on the
admins selection via debconf:
-| sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-vulnerablility-mitigation
+| sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-vulnerability-mitigation
The debconf dialog allows to choose individual mitigations, as well as the
following special values:
@@ -69,21 +69,21 @@ none:
Non-interactive usage
=====================
-The linux-vulnerablility-mitigation package can be preseeded with debconf:
+The linux-vulnerability-mitigation package can be preseeded with debconf:
| TMPFILE="$(mktemp)"
|
| cat > "${TMPFILE}" << EOF
-| linux-vulnerablility-mitigation linux-vulnerablility-mitigation/mitigations
multiselect all
+| linux-vulnerability-mitigation linux-vulnerability-mitigation/mitigations
multiselect all
| EOF
|
| cat "${TMPFILE}" | debconf-set-selections
-| dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive -pcritical linux-vulnerablility-mitigation
+| dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive -pcritical linux-vulnerability-mitigation
| rm -f "${TMPFILE}"
Instead of selecting 'all' mitigations, individual mitigations can be
specified by their CVE number, e.g.:
-| linux-vulnerablility-mitigation linux-vulnerablility-mitigation/mitigations
multiselect CVE-2026-31431, CVE-2026-43284, CVE-2026-43500
+| linux-vulnerability-mitigation linux-vulnerability-mitigation/mitigations
multiselect CVE-2026-31431, CVE-2026-43284, CVE-2026-43500
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