First you gotta tell me what do you think I'm saying. The link may not say it but if you check the thread that link resides in you'll see it's right on topic.
The context here is set by the parent:
> That sounds like a pretty serious issue with the QA and or bug tracking process.
My comment is exactly about "bug tracking process"
Linux is not known to be a friendly upstream when it comes to widely accepted security procedures like marking security vulnerabilities as such, coordinating fixes with distribution vendors etc.
> So I personally consider security bugs to be just "normal bugs". I don't
cover them up, but I also don't have any reason what-so-ever to think it's
a good idea to track them and announce them as something special. (http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/security_bugs.html)
Just look at the damn commit that fixes this vulnerability. It doesn't even tell it is a serious local privilege escalation. I saw the changelog for 4.4.26 yesterday and didn't realized it was an urgent security update until I saw Debian bulletin later.
Yeah. "various reasons". There are only 2 commits and one is a huge vulnerability. In the mean time the fix (thus the vulnerability) was sitting in Linus' git tree for the last week because Linus doesn't believe in security vulnerabilities.
First you gotta tell me what do you think I'm saying. The link may not say it but if you check the thread that link resides in you'll see it's right on topic.
The context here is set by the parent:
> That sounds like a pretty serious issue with the QA and or bug tracking process.
My comment is exactly about "bug tracking process" Linux is not known to be a friendly upstream when it comes to widely accepted security procedures like marking security vulnerabilities as such, coordinating fixes with distribution vendors etc.
> So I personally consider security bugs to be just "normal bugs". I don't cover them up, but I also don't have any reason what-so-ever to think it's a good idea to track them and announce them as something special. (http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/security_bugs.html)
Just look at the damn commit that fixes this vulnerability. It doesn't even tell it is a serious local privilege escalation. I saw the changelog for 4.4.26 yesterday and didn't realized it was an urgent security update until I saw Debian bulletin later.
> For various reasons I needed to get a round of stable kernels out sooner (http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg...)
Yeah. "various reasons". There are only 2 commits and one is a huge vulnerability. In the mean time the fix (thus the vulnerability) was sitting in Linus' git tree for the last week because Linus doesn't believe in security vulnerabilities.
Whatever.