Re: [stable] [PATCH] fix information leak in wireless extensions on 64-bit platforms

[Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>]

* Jean Tourrilhes (jt@hpl.hp.com) wrote:
> 	It seems that the lifetime of each stable branch is measured
> in weeks (apart from 2.6.16),

That's not accurate (apart from the fact that months are made of weeks ;-)

~2.5 months
2.6.15.1  Jan 15  2006
2.6.15.7  Mar 28  2006

[skipping 2.6.16 since it's still going]

~2 months
2.6.17.1  Aug 22  2006
2.6.17.14 Oct 13  2006

~3 months
2.6.18.1  Oct 14 2006
2.6.18.8  Feb 23 2007

~3 months
2.6.19.1  Dec 11 2006
2.6.19.7  Mar  3 2007

And to reiterate the sentiments of others.  Security relevant bugs are
always of interest to the stable team as well as distros.

> 	The last thing is that I could not test those stuff myself,
> and the testing done for me was limited. I would be more confident if
> you were to give it a good beating before we push that into stable,
> because you know what to test.

That's useful info.  Have you had any luck (it looks pretty straight
forward)?

thanks,
-chris