A /proc/PID/mem vulnerability [LWN.net]

A /proc/PID/mem vulnerability

Posted Jan 26, 2012 11:24 UTC (Thu) by PaXTeam (subscriber, #24616)
In reply to: A /proc/PID/mem vulnerability by kurtseifried
Parent article: A /proc/PID/mem vulnerability

> Your article has a major error [...]

does it? let's see the timeline:

1. original bugreport: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:38:51 +0200
2. Linus' commit: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:21:19 +0000 (15:21 -0800)
3. Eugene's mail on oss-sec: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:25:55 +0800
4. CVE assigned by Kurt: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:30:33 -0700
5. Red Hat bugzilla #782681: 2012-01-18 02:09:22 EST
6. Fedora fix by Josh Boyer: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:08:53 +0000 (10:08 -0500)
7. Kees' mail on oss-sec: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:43:28 -0800
8. Kees' mail on the 'secret' vendor list: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:06:50 -0800

you're saying that something else happened between 2 and 3 on linux-distros? evidence wants to be seen! i'm also wondering how Eugene had gotten wind of the security related impact of the commit before anyone else did.

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