Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161124AbWJDOaZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 10:30:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161141AbWJDOaZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 10:30:25 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:55946 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161124AbWJDOaY (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 10:30:24 -0400 Subject: Re: Registration Weakness in Linux Kernel's Binary formats From: Alan Cox To: Chase Venters Cc: Julio Auto , goodfellas@shellcode.com.ar, Linux kernel , Kyle Moffett , endrazine , Stephen Hemminger , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu In-Reply-To: <200610032326.10710.chase.venters@clientec.com> References: <18d709710610032108w52d69b17mfa585e40ad2ae72c@mail.gmail.com> <200610032326.10710.chase.venters@clientec.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:55:41 +0100 Message-Id: <1159973741.25772.45.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 703 Lines: 14 Ar Maw, 2006-10-03 am 23:25 -0500, ysgrifennodd Chase Venters: > I think it's a little bit silly for a "security researcher" to simultaneously > publish stuff in the news and in a developer community, especially if the > threat is totally phony to begin with. Given the way it was carefully fed to slashdot I suspect it may in fact be someone with brains who wanted to make slashdot look stupid and spoof them. If so they certainly scored 10/10 on that. - 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/