Re: Proper procedure for reporting possible security vulnerabilities?

[linux-os <linux-os@chaos.analogic.com>]

Are you sure it's an exploit? My information was that grsecurity
wanted some of their 'hooks' added to recent kernels and it hasn't
happened. That's not a security problem, that's an application
problem.

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Steve Bergman wrote:

> Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> Contact your vendor.  You are using vendor kernels, are you? 8-)
>> 
>
> Actually I am having a discussion with a Pax Team member about how the recent 
> exploits discovered by the grsecurity guys should have been handled.  They 
> clam that they sent email to Linus and Andrew and did not receive a response 
> for 3 weeks, and that is why they released exploit code into the wild.
>
> Anyone here have any comments on what I should tell him?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Bergman
>
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Cheers,
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