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A nasty local kernel vulnerability

A nasty local kernel vulnerability

Posted Feb 27, 2013 10:48 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: A nasty local kernel vulnerability by nix
Parent article: A nasty local kernel vulnerability

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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