Messages in this thread | | | From | Florian Weimer <> | Subject | Re: thoughts on kernel security issues | Date | Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:59:00 +0100 |
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* Barry K. Nathan:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:53:31AM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote: >> archived mail message or a webpage with the patch. Hoping he'll find the >> fixes in the vendor kernels, he goes to download source packages from SuSe, >> RedHat or Trustix, Debian, Ubuntu, whatever and discovers that it is as easy >> to find the patch there as it is to fish it out of the vanilla kernel patch >> for the new version. Frustrating, isn't it? Not to mention that he might > > http://linux.bkbits.net is your friend. > > Each patch (including security fixes) in the mainline kernels (2.4 and > 2.6) appears there as an individual, clickable link with a description > (e.g. "1.1551 Paul Starzetz: sys_uselib() race vulnerability > (CAN-2004-1235)").
This is the exception. Usually, changelogs are cryptic, often deliberately so. Do you still remember Alan's DMCA protest changelogs? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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