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I'm not sure how the Linux kernel handles these, but in some projects, this is intentional, the goal being to land the fix and make everyone safe before knowled
by verbatim 9y ago
I'm not sure how the Linux kernel handles these, but in some projects, this is intentional, the goal being to land the fix and make everyone safe before knowledge of how to exploit the bug is widely known.
Of course, sometimes just fixing up code for stability reasons may close a security hole that isn't really known or understood yet.
Not sure which was happening here.
- nix0n 9y agoSee http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/security_bugs.html http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/security_bugs.html Relevant Linus quote: "I personally consider security bugs to be just "normal bugs""
- krosaen 9y agoI just mean the code delta itself; one line of code can make a lot of difference :)
- hdhzy 9y agoSometimes even one character can make a lot of difference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_1#.22The_most_expensive_hyphen_in_history.22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_1#.22The_most_expensiv...