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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:07:32 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request - Linux kernel: VFAT slab-based
buffer overflow
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:00:27AM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
> > That's the whole problem here, who is going to do such a classification,
> > and after that, the notification? The first part is the toughest to do,
> > as discussed elsewhere in this thread.
>
> May I just bluntly call out shenanigans here? Yes, some bugs are
> esoteric and it's not immediately obvious that they are security
> related. But there are so many bugs that are _clearly_
> security-related.
Really? Ok then, please go ahead and try doing this yourself if you
feel it is so "obvious" to do.
> Kernel developers are super smart -- some of the brightest guys out
> there.
Nope, we are dumb, we do uninteresting, boring work, dealing with broken
hardware and demanding users every day. If we were smarter, we wouldn't
be doing this type of thing.
sorry,
greg k-h
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