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Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:23:45 +0200
From:	pageexec@...email.hu
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10

On 15 Jul 2008 at 13:18, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, pageexec@...email.hu wrote:
> >
> > in any case, i don't see why you can't put keywords into the commit
> > that say the bug being fixed is 'security related' or 'potentially 
> > exploitable', etc. people can then decide how to prioritize them.
> 
> Because I see no point. Quite often, we don't even realize some random bug 
> could have been a security issue.
> 
> It's not worth my energy, in other words. 

i understand and i think noone expects that. in fact, i know how much
expertise and time it takes to determine that. but what happens when
you do figure out the security relevance of a bug during bug submission
(say, it goes directly to security@...nel.org with a PoC to trigger it)
or while working out the fix or you see that it falls into an well-known
exploitable bug class? you have the information yet you still make no
mention of it. *that* at least can be fixed, if you chose so.

cheers,
 PaX Team

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