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Re: Security release pre-announcement messages
From: Greg KH <greg () kroah com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 10:14:08 +0200
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 09:35:45PM +0000, Stiepan wrote:
I would like to congratulate the teams that do that. If public disclosure is deemed too dangerous before a patch is available, this looks like The reasonable tradeoff. Wish it was the same with Linux...
I too want a pony :)
Rationale: people could switch meanwhile to a known safe kernel. That would provide peace of mind to the "rest of us" who don't have the keys to the linux-distros kingdom of the elected few, yet wish to have secure OSes, without a window of vulnerability open to whoever hacked into the elected few's machines (or are entitled another way to this secret information). It would also make Linux governance way more democratic, which seems to be a must for such a "too big to fail" core open-source software.
The "best known safe kernel" is the latest one we release from the stable kernel series. It has all of the fixes that that the kernel developers possibly know about at that point in time. There's no need to worry about being on linux-distros or anything else, just keep updating your kernel, test in in your infrastructure to ensure it all works properly, and then push it out to all of your other systems and all is good. thanks, greg k-h
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- CVE-2019-13917 OVE-20190718-0006: Exim: security release ahead Heiko Schlittermann (Jul 22)
- Re: CVE-2019-13917 OVE-20190718-0006: Exim: security release ahead Mikhail Klementev (Jul 22)
- Re: CVE-2019-13917 OVE-20190718-0006: Exim: security release ahead Stuart Henderson (Jul 22)
- Re: CVE-2019-13917 OVE-20190718-0006: Exim: security release ahead Mikhail Klementev (Jul 22)
- Re: CVE-2019-13917 OVE-20190718-0006: Exim: security release ahead Solar Designer (Jul 22)
- Re: CVE-2019-13917 OVE-20190718-0006: Exim: security release ahead Amos Jeffries (Jul 22)
- Re: CVE-2019-13917 OVE-20190718-0006: Exim: security release ahead Ian Zimmerman (Jul 22)
- Security release pre-announcement messages Douglas Bagnall (Jul 24)
- Re: Security release pre-announcement messages Stiepan (Jul 26)
- Re: Security release pre-announcement messages Greg KH (Jul 26)
- Re: Security release pre-announcement messages Greg KH (Jul 26)
- Re: Security release pre-announcement messages Stiepan (Jul 26)
- Re: CVE-2019-13917 OVE-20190718-0006: Exim: security release ahead Stuart Henderson (Jul 22)
- Re: CVE-2019-13917 OVE-20190718-0006: Exim: security release ahead Mikhail Klementev (Jul 22)
- Re: CVE-2019-13917 OVE-20190718-0006: Exim: security release ahead Heiko Schlittermann (Jul 22)