Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261200AbVAMI7I (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 03:59:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261312AbVAMI7I (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 03:59:08 -0500 Received: from mail.enyo.de ([212.9.189.167]:11396 "EHLO mail.enyo.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261200AbVAMI7C (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 03:59:02 -0500 From: Florian Weimer To: "Barry K. Nathan" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: thoughts on kernel security issues References: <20050112094807.K24171@build.pdx.osdl.net> <20050112185133.GA10687@kroah.com> <20050112161227.GF32024@logos.cnet> <20050112205350.GM24518@redhat.com> <20050113032506.GB1212@redhat.com> <20050113035331.GC9176@beowulf.thanes.org> <20050113053807.GE4378@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:59:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20050113053807.GE4378@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net> (Barry K. Nathan's message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:38:07 -0800") Message-ID: <878y6xr9gr.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1134 Lines: 24 * Barry K. Nathan: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:53:31AM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote: >> archived mail message or a webpage with the patch. Hoping he'll find the >> fixes in the vendor kernels, he goes to download source packages from SuSe, >> RedHat or Trustix, Debian, Ubuntu, whatever and discovers that it is as easy >> to find the patch there as it is to fish it out of the vanilla kernel patch >> for the new version. Frustrating, isn't it? Not to mention that he might > > http://linux.bkbits.net is your friend. > > Each patch (including security fixes) in the mainline kernels (2.4 and > 2.6) appears there as an individual, clickable link with a description > (e.g. "1.1551 Paul Starzetz: sys_uselib() race vulnerability > (CAN-2004-1235)"). This is the exception. Usually, changelogs are cryptic, often deliberately so. Do you still remember Alan's DMCA protest changelogs? - 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/