Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [SECURITY] suid procs exec'd with bad 0,1,2 fds | Date | Tue, 4 Aug 1998 18:36:29 +0100 (BST) |
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> True. > > However I still contend that this is an ass-backwards way to fix > bugs in software.
Security patches aren't intended to fix bugs in software. They are a recogntion of the fact that nobody has mastered the art of writing highly secure software.
Some of them also do things you can't do as a generic case - stuff like TPE requires kernel help
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