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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:24:09 +0100
From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request - Linux kernel: VFAT slab-based buffer overflow
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
> Really? Ok then, please go ahead and try doing this yourself if you
> feel it is so "obvious" to do.
I did yesterday, actually. I saw some commit that said "use after
free!", saw that it was triggerable by an unpriv'd user, and sent it
into the list. Kurt took a look at it, agreed with the assessment, and
assigned a CVE. The commit itself said "use after free" -- I didn't
even have to do any heavy lifting or hair-splitting investigation.
>> 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.
Come on...
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