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From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Evan Rudford <zocker76@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, workflows@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is the Linux kernel underfunded? Lack of quality and security?
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 14:53:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201118195338.GD538542@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE90CG4N+orfJ2PUygWk3T8LDN+mHEjRz7qhz29MsyH9DOzv3A@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 08:30:48PM +0100, Evan Rudford wrote:
> I believe that Spectre and Meltdown are kind of orthogonal to many
> other security threats.
> Yes, I fully agree that Spectre and Meltdown need to be addressed, but
> I still consider arbitrary buffer overflows in parsing libraries as
> more dangerous than "typical" Spectre/Meltdown threats.

You do realize that the kernel does very little parsing, and doesn't
use any parsing libraries, right?

In any cases, do you have a specific proposal you'd like to make?  Or
do you have something specific you'd be interested in doing, yourself,
to help make things better?

						- Ted

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-18 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-05  3:49 Is the Linux kernel underfunded? Lack of quality and security? Evan Rudford
2020-01-05  8:15 ` Greg KH
2020-11-18 17:59   ` Evan Rudford
2020-11-18 18:13     ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-18 19:30       ` Evan Rudford
2020-11-18 19:51         ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-18 19:53         ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-01-05  3:47 Evan Rudford
2020-01-05  4:09 ` Al Viro
2020-01-05 21:28 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o

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