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Re: DSU
From: Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:34:23 +0200
On 11 Jul 2006 at 9:57, Dave Aitel wrote:This is the difference between Linux and Windows. If this had been Microsoft they would have just changed the behavior silently or made it part of some other patch and hoped no one noticed.sorry if i missed the sarcasm above, but are you suggesting that the following is actually what it is claimed to be? ;-) http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7c85d1f9d358b24c5b05c3a2783a78423775a080
Most kernel bug fixes are not reviewed for their security impact. This means that a lot of things are in fact fixed silently. Perhaps it's not as deliberate as what Microsoft is doing, but as a side effect, some of these fixes are not picked up by vendors and do not end up in their kernels, even though the bug fix has been published. _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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