>Despite the banality, the bug is serious, as it allows any local user to trivially perform a denial-of-service attack against a critical system component. Is

>Despite the banality, the bug is serious, as it allows any local user to trivially perform a denial-of-service attack against a critical system component. Is it really that serious of a bug? You have to be a local user in order to execute it. Are other OS's somehow resilient to the actions of local user to degrade the OS? >The Linux ecosystem has fallen behind other operating systems in writing secure and robust software. While Microsoft was hardening Windows and Apple was developing iOS, open source software became complacent. He must be unaware of the numerous patches Microsoft and Apple issue on a regular basis to fix their "secure and robust software".