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SubjectRe: Proper procedure for reporting possible security vulnerabilities?
El Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:19:01 -0800 "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com> escribió:

> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:08:27PM +0100, Diego Calleja wrote:
> > They could have mailed to *THIS* mailing list, so anyone can make a patch.
>
> And abandon the whole idea of coordinated disclosure? That would put
> anyone using vendor kernels at a disadvantage (there would be a time gap
> between the vulnerability being public and the vendor kernel being
> released -- which happened anyway with uselib() but which doesn't
> *always* happen).

Yes it wouldn't be "coordinated disclosure" but at least you'd get a patch
instead of a public exploit.
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