#1140113 hobbit-plugins: kern: kernel version regex broken for versions containing "+" (e.g. 6.12.90+deb13.1-amd64)

Package:
hobbit-plugins
Source:
hobbit-plugins
Submitter:
David Fogarty
Date:
2026-06-15 22:09:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1140113#5
Date:
2026-06-15 22:01:01 UTC
From:
To:
There's a problem with /usr/lib/xymon/client/ext/kern from the
"hobbit-plugins".  The test is using grep -E and Debian 13 ships kernel
versions with "+" in them (f.e. '6.12.90+deb13.1-amd64').  This breaks the
regex, but quotemeta() first would fix it.

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<         " | grep -E '^$kernel_image_release|^Linux version '";
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