Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10

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From: Aidan Thornton
Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 2:08 pm

On 7/15/08, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

I hate to state the obvious, but there's a reason security holes are treated differently - because they're *not* *obvious*. If a system is crashing spectacularly, generally someone notices and tries to fix it. On the other hand, security holes are usually invisible in normal operation until a hacker uses one to walk off with tens of thousands of people's credit card details. That's why there's so much effort put into tracking them.


True, there are other serious types of bugs (silent data corruption is one particularly nasty one). However, for *any* serious bug, it's important to be clear on what the likely impact is and what's affected. This goes particularly for the ones that might otherwise not be obvious to the person affected until it's too late, such as security and silent data corruption bugs, but really it applies to all serious bugs. I'm not convinced these descriptions are clear enough.

Aidan
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Linux 2.6.25.10, Greg KH, (Wed Jul 2, 8:58 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.25.10, Greg KH, (Wed Jul 2, 8:58 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.25.10, Bart Van Assche, (Thu Jul 3, 10:08 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.25.10, Greg KH, (Thu Jul 3, 10:29 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.25.10, Greg KH, (Thu Jul 3, 11:57 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.25.10, pageexec, (Thu Jul 3, 12:31 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.25.10, Bart Van Assche, (Sat Jul 5, 12:54 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.25.10, Greg KH, (Mon Jul 7, 9:12 pm)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, Greg KH, (Mon Jul 14, 5:04 am)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, pageexec, (Mon Jul 14, 7:14 pm)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Jul 14, 7:27 pm)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, pageexec, (Tue Jul 15, 8:31 am)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Jul 15, 9:07 am)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Jul 15, 9:13 am)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, Theodore Tso, (Tue Jul 15, 11:33 am)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, pageexec, (Tue Jul 15, 12:03 pm)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Jul 15, 12:16 pm)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, Tiago Assumpcao, (Tue Jul 15, 1:15 pm)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, pageexec, (Tue Jul 15, 1:28 pm)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, Greg KH, (Tue Jul 15, 3:39 pm)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, David Miller, (Tue Jul 15, 3:47 pm)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, Tiago Assumpcao, (Tue Jul 15, 4:08 pm)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, pageexec, (Tue Jul 15, 4:09 pm)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, David Miller, (Tue Jul 15, 4:21 pm)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, pageexec, (Tue Jul 15, 4:22 pm)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, pageexec, (Tue Jul 15, 4:26 pm)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, Tiago Assumpcao, (Tue Jul 15, 4:26 pm)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, Tiago Assumpcao, (Tue Jul 15, 4:34 pm)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, David Miller, (Tue Jul 15, 4:35 pm)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, Aidan Thornton, (Thu Jul 17, 2:08 pm)
RE: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, David Schwartz, (Fri Jul 18, 5:47 pm)
RE: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, david, (Fri Jul 18, 6:01 pm)
RE: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, David Schwartz, (Fri Jul 18, 6:51 pm)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, Willy Tarreau, (Fri Jul 18, 10:41 pm)
Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10, Bernd Eckenfels, (Sat Jul 19, 6:13 pm)