Often the applications are packaged by random people on the Internet and do not receive security updates.
There's plenty of evidence showing how bad the problem is and there's no way around it.
You need the security team of a distribution to backport security fixes into a stable distribution and a large user community test them.
Only with this you can run apt-get upgrade without breaking things.
Often the applications are packaged by random people on the Internet and do not receive security updates.
There's plenty of evidence showing how bad the problem is and there's no way around it.
You need the security team of a distribution to backport security fixes into a stable distribution and a large user community test them.
Only with this you can run apt-get upgrade without breaking things.