Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Jan 13 2005 - 12:04:29 EST


On Iau, 2005-01-13 at 02:28, Andrew Morton wrote:
> For the above reasons I see no need to delay publication of local DoS holes
> at all. The only thing for which we need to provide special processing is
> privilege escalation bugs.
>
> Or am I missing something?

Universities and web hosting companys see the DoS issue rather
differently sometimes. (Once we have Xen in the tree we'll have a good
answer)

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