More information about Dirty COW (aka CVE-2016-5195)

Posted Oct 20, 2016 21:33 UTC (Thu) by evad (subscriber, #60553)
Parent article: More information about Dirty COW (aka CVE-2016-5195)

Eugh, why is that website advocating donating to the FreeBSD project, and why does it have a shop to buy 'merchandise' for a security flaw?

More information about Dirty COW (aka CVE-2016-5195)

Posted Oct 20, 2016 21:39 UTC (Thu) by GhePeU (subscriber, #56133) [Link]

And it's not even associated with the discoverer of the vulnerability. Somebody trying to cash in? Personally I'd remove the link.

Dirty Cow merchandise

Posted Oct 20, 2016 22:10 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

A quick look at the pricing in the "shop" suggests that this is not actually a serious commercial endeavor...

Dirty Cow merchandise

Posted Oct 21, 2016 15:51 UTC (Fri) by zblaxell (subscriber, #26385) [Link]

Pity. The logo is mildly endearing and I could use a reasonably-priced tote bag. ;)

More information about Dirty COW (aka CVE-2016-5195)

Posted Oct 20, 2016 22:35 UTC (Thu) by spender (guest, #23067) [Link] (3 responses)

Probably because FreeBSD fixed a similar flaw in 2013. I suppose the recitation of Linus' "a bug is a bug" quote also went over your head ;) The site is quite clearly a parody of a number of things.

-Brad

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Posted Oct 20, 2016 22:53 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link] (1 responses)

All it's really missing is an acknowledgment that given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow

More information about Dirty COW (aka CVE-2016-5195)

Posted Oct 20, 2016 23:45 UTC (Thu) by spender (guest, #23067) [Link]

The jokes write themselves:
https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/issues/3

-Brad

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Posted Oct 20, 2016 23:34 UTC (Thu) by robert_p (guest, #110578) [Link]

"In fact, all the boring normal bugs are _way_ more important, just because there's a lot more of them. I don't think some spectacular security hole should be glorified or cared about as being any more "special" than a random spectacular crash due to bad locking."

It would be funny if it wasn't reality and pretty much a 1:1 quote.

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Posted Oct 20, 2016 22:39 UTC (Thu) by itvirta (guest, #49997) [Link] (1 responses)

Even a ladies t-shirt listed, that's brave.

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Posted Oct 21, 2016 13:40 UTC (Fri) by adobriyan (subscriber, #30858) [Link]

Someone should cash in on ALLCAPS VULN Wordpress template by now.