Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Oct 2003 01:45:07 +0200 | From | Jose Luis Domingo Lopez <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.0-test9 |
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On Saturday, 25 October 2003, at 12:09:10 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> If it corrupts data, is a security issue, or causes lockups or just basic > nonworkingness: and this happens on hardware that _normal_ people are > expected to have, then it's critical. Otherwise, it's noise and should > wait. > With respect to security issues, there have been some of them in the past months, and at least some of them were not fixed back them with the argument of "development release, will be fixed".
It seems that Alan Cox was the one to keep track of these security problems, but now that he is on his sabbatical year maybe some of the fixes are still pending, because nobody remembers there were any ;-)
Are these problems already fixed, and I missed them, or there are still some to be addressed ?.
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