Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Tue, 16 Jul 2013 03:30:01 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 14:44 -0700, Greg KH wrote: [...] > The second one is almost always due to security issues that were unknown > to the distro. The announcement of security problems to the distros has > now been addressed, and since that has changed, I haven't heard any > problems about this. [...]
I'm not elite enough to be on these security lists, though sometimes I hear about embargoed issues through the Debian security team.
Anything that's being reviewed on the stable list is public. I know this is an old argument, but if you point out a fix you *know* has a security impact then you'll help general distribution maintainers and users a lot more than you help the black-hats who are quite capable of recognising such a fix (if they haven't already spotted and exploited the bug).
Ben.
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