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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 05:49:47 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: USBCreator D-Bus service

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 05:50:35PM -0700, Tavis Ormandy wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 22, 2015, Seth Arnold <seth.arnold@...onical.com> wrote:
> > We treat local root escalation vulnerabilities with a high priority[1].
> 
> I wish you had spoken up during the previous discussion. It was my
> impression that embargoes for local privilege escalations were universally
> considered deprecated.

I think Kurt's comment (in the linux-distros discussion) on not needing
further vulnerability reports embargoed applied solely to ABRT.

I can see how this can appear as extending to any local root issues, for
users who have ABRT installed and enabled.

Kurt might want to clarify this.

Alexander

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