From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
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Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Proper procedure for reporting possible security vulnerabilities?
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:05:54 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501111804530.15932@yvahk01.tjqt.qr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501111754400.3368@dragon.hygekrogen.localhost>
>Not everyone agrees that that is the proper way to do things, some prefer
>full disclosure.
>Personally I'd prefer full disclosure on a public mailing list (copying
>vendors, maintainers etc of course), so as many people as possible can get
>to work on a fix as soon as possible. Keeping things secret doesn't speed
>up the time to get a fix made.
But five people working on the same thing aiming to provide a patch (the
very same one, probably) is also no better; work could be saved.
Jan Engelhardt
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ENOSPC
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-11 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-10 16:46 Proper procedure for reporting possible security vulnerabilities? Steve Bergman
2005-01-10 18:23 ` Indrek Kruusa
2005-01-10 19:24 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-11 9:32 ` Florian Weimer
2005-01-10 21:31 ` Florian Weimer
2005-01-10 21:42 ` Steve Bergman
2005-01-10 22:08 ` Diego Calleja
2005-01-11 0:19 ` Barry K. Nathan
2005-01-11 0:45 ` Diego Calleja
2005-01-11 9:35 ` Florian Weimer
2005-01-11 16:57 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-01-11 17:05 ` Jan Engelhardt [this message]
2005-01-10 22:09 ` linux-os
2005-01-11 0:44 ` Barry K. Nathan
2005-01-10 22:11 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-01-11 0:40 ` Chris Wright
2005-01-11 1:09 ` Diego Calleja
2005-01-11 1:18 ` Chris Wright
2005-01-11 17:05 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-01-11 16:39 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-11 21:25 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-01-11 21:29 ` Chris Wright
2005-01-12 21:05 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-01-17 22:49 ` Werner Almesberger
2005-01-17 22:52 ` Chris Wright
2005-01-17 23:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-17 23:26 ` Chris Wright
2005-01-17 23:57 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-18 1:08 ` Chris Wright
2005-01-11 17:57 ` Chris Wright
2005-01-12 12:23 ` Florian Weimer
2005-01-11 9:49 ` Florian Weimer
2005-01-11 16:10 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-12 12:33 ` Florian Weimer
2005-01-13 15:36 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <200501101959.j0AJxUvl032294@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl>
2005-01-10 21:36 ` Indrek Kruusa
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