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On 06/21/2013 11:30 AM, Mike Pagano wrote: |
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> This should be written down and if it's not that's probably on me as I |
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> am the only kernel person (i think) that was involved in the decision |
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> and is still around. |
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Nope, I was there. It was the IA32 on amd64 syscall local root exploit |
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that got us "blogged" about ... remember that :) |
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Anyhow, no brainer here. The kernel is not like the other software we |
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stabilize. Somewhere in its configuration space and in the hardware |
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space in which it will be run, there are bugs. Minor version bumps to |
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address security issues followed by auto stabilization are the correct |
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thing to do. |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] |
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E-Mail : blueness@g.o |
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