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How can you be sure?How can you be sure?Posted Sep 11, 2008 22:32 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)In reply to: How can you be sure? by khim Parent article: The Fedora-Red Hat Crisis (Datamation)
> we can't say why you should apply it and how it will work, but you SHOULD apply it
Say, for instance, it was the kernel problem. They can submit a patch that says: "such and such was fixed, which caused privilege escalation". This does not contain the information about the actual intrusion into their systems, but is a genuine patch with a genuine explanation.
> And they STILL were compromised
It doesn't necessarily follow that a security bug was the root cause of this.
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