Probably like many places, we weigh the potential or actual disruptionof things like kernel updates against the risks of not updating whendeciding how urgent applying them is. As part of this, I have developeda personal way of sorting security issues into different categories thatI care about, with an end result ranging from not so bad to really bad(and if we are lucky, 'no impact, we can ignore').

For various reasons I feel like writing out the things I care aboutand look at today