linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag

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Message-ID: <1373941801.31067.113.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 16 Jul 2013 03:30:01 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable
 kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag

On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 14:44 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
[...]
> The second one is almost always due to security issues that were unknown
> to the distro.  The announcement of security problems to the distros has
> now been addressed, and since that has changed, I haven't heard any
> problems about this.
[...]

I'm not elite enough to be on these security lists, though sometimes I
hear about embargoed issues through the Debian security team.

Anything that's being reviewed on the stable list is public.  I know
this is an old argument, but if you point out a fix you *know* has a
security impact then you'll help general distribution maintainers and
users a lot more than you help the black-hats who are quite capable of
recognising such a fix (if they haven't already spotted and exploited
the bug).

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings.

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