diff --git a/testing/INSTALL b/testing/INSTALL
index 012fef163a..2ef158c088 100644
--- a/testing/INSTALL
+++ b/testing/INSTALL
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ are required for the strongSwan testing environment:
     * A vanilla Linux kernel on which the UML kernel will be based on.
       We recommend the use of
 
-      http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.17.7.tar.bz2
+      http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.17.11.tar.bz2
 
     * Starting with Linux kernel 2.6.9 no patch must be applied any more in order
       to make the vanilla kernel UML-capable. For older kernels you'll find
diff --git a/testing/testing.conf b/testing/testing.conf
index 8ea75432c4..54c3b23f5c 100755
--- a/testing/testing.conf
+++ b/testing/testing.conf
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ UMLTESTDIR=~/strongswan-testing
 
 # Bzipped kernel sources
 # (file extension .tar.bz2 required)
-KERNEL=$UMLTESTDIR/linux-2.6.17.7.tar.bz2
+KERNEL=$UMLTESTDIR/linux-2.6.17.11.tar.bz2
 
 # Extract kernel version
 KERNELVERSION=`basename $KERNEL .tar.bz2 | sed -e 's/linux-//'`