Re: Proper procedure for reporting possible security vulnerabilities?

From: Barry K. Nathan
Date: Mon Jan 10 2005 - 21:25:39 EST


On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 05:09:18PM -0500, linux-os wrote:
> Are you sure it's an exploit? My information was that grsecurity
> wanted some of their 'hooks' added to recent kernels and it hasn't
> happened. That's not a security problem, that's an application
> problem.

Yes, exploit (although the severity is arguable). See the 2.6.10-ac7
portion of the changelog here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110523047925271&w=2

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@xxxxxxxxx>

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