Old Kernel, risk of getting hacked?

Ok i know everyone says about keeping everything up to date, and i do, all server software on my server, which includes, apache, mysql, bind, proftpd, ircd, samba, php4, exim, etc

The problem is this, i cant, for the life of me, upgrade the kernel, i have tried and tried but i ALWAYS get a kernel panic.

Yes i have included support for my file system, and so on, but it always kernel panics

all the gcc compilers and so on are up to date so its not them.

my question is this, I have a very secure firewall, with all software, apart from the kernel (2.4.18) up to date.

Is this server likely to get hacked?

or is this old kernel not that much of a risk?

Thanx

 

 

 

 

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