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A nasty local kernel vulnerabilityA nasty local kernel vulnerabilityPosted Feb 26, 2013 21:58 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: A nasty local kernel vulnerability by khim Parent article: A nasty local kernel vulnerability
I have to agree with PaXTeam here (yes, it can happen). When did they cry wolf about actual exploits? One can disagree with PaXTeam and spender regarding their attitude, their interaction with the kernel community, the hopelessness of their task as long as they specialize principally in making people hate them, all sorts of things -- but if they say there is a security hole somewhere, they are more or less guaranteed to be right. As I've said before, that's the tragedy here: their frankly terrible interpersonal skills doom them to being Cassandras, crying the truth but universally ignored.
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A nasty local kernel vulnerability Posted Feb 27, 2013 10:48 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] if they say there is a security hole somewhere, they are more or less guaranteed to be right Sure, but is it serious enough to drop everything and start shutting down some services or is it minor enough to schedule kernel update early next quarter? These are the things most readers of LWN wonder about. Some may be more technical and may care about juicy details of the bug — but these are in the minority.
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