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The 3.8 kernel is out

The 3.8 kernel is out

Posted Mar 2, 2013 4:13 UTC (Sat) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)
In reply to: The 3.8 kernel is out by bojan
Parent article: The 3.8 kernel is out

That's a pretty awful wikipedia page. Ah well.

I can't make enough sense of their definition to decide if it really does disagree with me though, it just thrashes about with this idea about "beneficiaries" of a bug without really making any headway. The authorised / unauthorised partition that has plagued that article over its history is a classic error of the sort that should encourage caution about the idea of "non security" bugs. If a customer has an account with us to buy vegetables they are doubtless an _authorised_ user of the purchasing system. Nevertheless I do not want them to obtain a list of everybody's financial records so the existence of an SQL injection that works only after logging into the purchasing system is still a security bug.


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