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Glossary: Vulnerability, Asset and Change Management

Backport

Also written: backports, backported fix

Copying a fix into an older version of a program instead of upgrading it, and raising only the package revision. Ubuntu backported the fix for CVE-2024-6387 into OpenSSH 9.6p1, so the version in the banner looked vulnerable when it wasn't.

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