Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:34:23 -0800
From: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
To: Massimo Cetra <mcetra@navynet.it>
Cc: "'Barry K. Nathan'" <barryn@pobox.com>, "'O.Sezer'" <sezeroz@ttnet.net.tr>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.28-rc4
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 01:10:32AM +0100, Massimo Cetra wrote:
> Why such a decision ?
> 
> Do you think that it is not exploitable or at least not in a short time ?

As far as I can tell, the only damage an exploit could do is to crash
*itself*; unless I'm mistaken, any "exploit" would not be able to use
either of these bugs to do any other mischief. I guess that's a long way
of saying, I don't think it's exploitable.

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>

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