Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752242Ab3GMPLR (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Jul 2013 11:11:17 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:15143 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751278Ab3GMPLP (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Jul 2013 11:11:15 -0400 Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 11:10:48 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Jochen Striepe , "Theodore Ts'o" , Guenter Roeck , Linus Torvalds , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , stable Subject: Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review Message-ID: <20130713151048.GB31035@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Steven Rostedt , Jochen Striepe , Theodore Ts'o , Guenter Roeck , Linus Torvalds , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , stable References: <20130712173150.GA5534@roeck-us.net> <20130712181103.GA6689@roeck-us.net> <20130712193557.GB342@thunk.org> <1373658551.17876.117.camel@gandalf.local.home> <20130712201939.GB15261@redhat.com> <1373660900.17876.124.camel@gandalf.local.home> <20130713004707.GF7609@pompeji.miese-zwerge.org> <1373713889.17876.135.camel@gandalf.local.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1373713889.17876.135.camel@gandalf.local.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1047 Lines: 23 On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 07:11:29AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Users expect vanilla .0 releases usable as production systems, to > > be updated (meaning, no new features, just stabilizing) with the > > corresponding -stable series. > > This really is a case by case basis. An unprivileged user exploit > requires a box that lets other users than the owner of the box to log > in. Most users of .0 releases do not do this. local exploits aren't just a problem for multi-user machines. An attacker who can own your firefox process, can now potentially escalate to root. (Ok, most exploits are just crashing the box, but how many times have we been proven wrong in the past when we thought something was just a DoS, and someone smarter has found a way to turn it into a root-hole?) Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/