Re: Linux 2.4.28-rc4

From: Barry K. Nathan
Date: Fri Nov 19 2004 - 16:38:00 EST


On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 01:10:32AM +0100, Massimo Cetra wrote:
> Why such a decision ?
>
> Do you think that it is not exploitable or at least not in a short time ?

As far as I can tell, the only damage an exploit could do is to crash
*itself*; unless I'm mistaken, any "exploit" would not be able to use
either of these bugs to do any other mischief. I guess that's a long way
of saying, I don't think it's exploitable.

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@xxxxxxxxx>

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