Null pointers, one month later [LWN.net]

Null pointers, one month later

Posted Aug 27, 2009 9:21 UTC (Thu) by gebi (subscriber, #59940)
Parent article: Null pointers, one month later

> By Jonathan Corbet August 18, 2009
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> As of this writing, no other distributors have fixed this problem (though Mandriva's update showed up just before publication).

WTF?
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1862

new updated kernel packages got available for amd64 at 14-Aug-2009 14:35.
Not bad for a vulnerability reported on 13.8 though debians kernel/security team does a _really_ good job at such things! (thx for your hard work!)

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Null pointers, one month later

Posted Aug 27, 2009 12:58 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

WTF indeed. If you read the text, you'll see that Debian is credited as having gotten the first update out. I seem to have written that in an especially confusing way, and I apologize, but the information is there.