linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.25.6

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:06:45 -0300
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25.6

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> Person fixing a bug may not realize he fixes security-sensitive bug.

That is a valid reason, I am pretty sure everyone here (including me) has
been guilty of that one.  Which doesn't mean we can't do better to educate
ourselves on the patterns for the most common issues.  The "fix for a
null-dereference to anything that has a function pointer in it" is such a
pattern.

> Or simply doesn't care because there are 5 more to fix for today.

THAT, however, is unacceptable IMO.  If one can't be bothered, or one
doesn't have the time (or the skill, whatever) to access the severity of a
fix, he should ask for someone to do that on the commit message.  One extra
short sentence at the end of the commit message [asking for that help] is
DEFINATELY not too much to ask.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/