From: Tiago Assumpcao <tiago@assumpcao.org>
To: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
pageexec@freemail.hu, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:13:34 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <487D756E.50506@assumpcao.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <487D6AB9.7080700@schaufler-ca.com>
Casey Schaufler wrote:
> Ted Tso, Stephen Smalley and I are all recognized as security experts
> and we can't even agree on whether sockets are objects or not, much
> less what constitutes a security bug and even less what is likely to
> be a security bug. Goodness, there are some of us who would argue
> that since DNS is itself a security bug it is just not possible for
> DNS to have a security bug, as an example.
>
>> In most cases, they are easy to spot.
>
> Err, no, in the kernel environment a real security flaw is likely to
> be pretty subtle.
You do not hesitate in categorizing yourself as something as obscure
as... what's that term again? "Expert". But then you fail on basic
pragmatism when attempting to define what, nearly always, is a true or
false question?
Jeez ;)
--t
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-16 4:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-03 3:58 Linux 2.6.25.10 Greg KH
2008-07-03 3:58 ` Greg KH
2008-07-03 17:08 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-07-03 17:29 ` Greg KH
2008-07-03 18:57 ` Greg KH
2008-07-03 19:31 ` pageexec
2008-07-14 12:04 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2008-07-15 2:14 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 2:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 15:31 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 16:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 16:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-17 21:08 ` Aidan Thornton
2008-07-15 19:03 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 19:16 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <487D20EC.26203.1BD1E5C5@pageexec.freemail.hu>
2008-07-15 20:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 20:23 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 20:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 21:18 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 21:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 22:08 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 23:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 0:00 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 0:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 0:38 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 0:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 1:10 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 1:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 2:24 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 3:11 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-16 9:49 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 10:08 ` David Miller
2008-07-16 10:23 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 10:31 ` David Miller
2008-07-16 10:51 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 11:04 ` David Miller
2008-07-16 11:52 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 3:13 ` Greg KH
2008-07-16 9:01 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 9:35 ` Gabor Gombas
2008-07-16 10:04 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 14:43 ` Greg KH
2008-07-16 15:43 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 16:29 ` Greg KH
2008-07-16 17:25 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 18:08 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-16 19:09 ` pageexec
2008-07-17 3:43 ` Mike Galbraith
2008-07-16 1:08 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-16 1:30 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 1:53 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 2:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 2:36 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 4:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 4:16 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 3:27 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-07-16 4:13 ` Tiago Assumpcao [this message]
2008-07-16 4:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 5:02 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 5:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 5:26 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-07-16 9:33 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 13:21 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-16 15:16 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 0:04 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 0:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 0:56 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 1:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 1:23 ` pageexec
2008-07-17 7:19 ` Rafael C. de Almeida
2008-07-17 7:59 ` pageexec
2008-07-17 4:21 ` Phil Pell
2008-07-15 18:33 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-15 20:28 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 22:39 ` Greg KH
2008-07-15 22:47 ` David Miller
2008-07-15 23:08 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-15 23:21 ` David Miller
2008-07-15 23:26 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 23:26 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-15 23:22 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 23:35 ` David Miller
2008-07-15 23:09 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 20:15 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-20 1:13 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2008-07-15 23:34 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-19 0:47 ` David Schwartz
2008-07-19 1:01 ` david
2008-07-19 1:51 ` David Schwartz
2008-07-19 5:41 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-07-05 7:54 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-07-08 4:12 ` Greg KH
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