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Timeline

Posted Jul 13, 2006 7:25 UTC (Thu) by mjcox@redhat.com (guest, #31775)
Parent article: Denial of reality vulnerabilities

To clarify on the article text here is the timeline of discovery

19 June 2006: Red Hat security team first aware of issue.

21 June 2006: Red Hat notified kernel security team and vendor-sec (private list which other Linux vendors security teams take part in) under embargo. We gave our working exploit showing this was a privilege escalation flaw to these groups.

06 July 2006: Embargo lifted


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