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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>
Cc: Julio Auto <mindvortex@gmail.com>,
	goodfellas@shellcode.com.ar,
	Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
	endrazine <endrazine@gmail.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Subject: Re: Registration Weakness in Linux Kernel's Binary formats
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:55:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159973741.25772.45.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610032326.10710.chase.venters@clientec.com>

Ar Maw, 2006-10-03 am 23:25 -0500, ysgrifennodd Chase Venters:
> 	I think it's a little bit silly for a "security researcher" to simultaneously 
> publish stuff in the news and in a developer community, especially if the 
> threat is totally phony to begin with.

Given the way it was carefully fed to slashdot I suspect it may in fact
be someone with brains who wanted to make slashdot look stupid and spoof
them. If so they certainly scored 10/10 on that.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-04 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-04  4:08 Registration Weakness in Linux Kernel's Binary formats Julio Auto
2006-10-04  4:25 ` Chase Venters
2006-10-04 14:55   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-10-04 14:34     ` Xavier Bestel
2006-10-04  5:40 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-10-04  7:11   ` Peter Read
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-03 21:25 Fwd: " Bráulio Oliveira
2006-10-03 21:53 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-10-03 21:59   ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-03 22:28     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-10-03 19:13 SHELLCODE Security Research
2006-10-03 21:48 ` Chase Venters
2006-10-03 22:54   ` Alan Cox
2006-10-04  3:49 ` Chase Venters

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