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SubjectRe: Proper procedure for reporting possible security vulnerabilities?
* Diego Calleja (diegocg@gmail.com) wrote:
> El Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:40:02 -0800 Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> escribió:
>
> > Problem is, the rest of the world uses a security contact for reporting
> > security sensitive bugs to project maintainers and coordinating
> > disclosures. I think it would be good for the kernel to do that as well.
>
> (somewhat OT..)
>
> Perhaps it's just me, but i think it'd be nice that a new kernel version is
> released every time a security issue is found.

I agree. I'd not mind seeing a full release, but at least a collection
of relevant patches. I used to keep such a list, and have discussed
bringing it back with some folks (just for the current stable 2.6.x).
I think there's some agreement that we could do better.

thanks,
-chris
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