Speaking with code

Speaking with code

Posted Jul 25, 2009 1:07 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Speaking with code by dlang
Parent article: Quotes of the week

Combining your message with nix's you get precisely to my point: after the exploit was released kernel devs started not just closing that bug, but dealing with whole categories of bugs. As explained by Jon at length in this very weekly edition:

But this exploit suggests that there could be a whole class of related problems in the kernel; there is a definite chance that similar vulnerabilities could be discovered - if, indeed, they have not already been found.

and

All told, the posting of this exploit has served as a sort of wakeup call for the kernel community; it will, with luck, result in the cleaning up of a lot of code and the closing of a number of security problems.

Reporting each bug would probably have served to just close a few tiny bugs, but the exploit made kernel devs think beyond that. Which is exactly what we need.

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