Re: Proper procedure for reporting possible securityvulnerabilities?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Jan 10 2005 - 21:50:37 EST


On Llu, 2005-01-10 at 16:46, Steve Bergman wrote:
> So what is the preferred procedure and is it documented somewhere?
> Should it be made more prominent?

Good question. The preferred procedure depends on your viewpoint on
disclosure

vendor-sec@xxxxxx is a cross vendor security list and a good place for
stuff. It will deal with both public and date embargoed security
information. security@[your-vendor] should work for most responsible
vendors and may be more appropriate if it involves a vendor kernel that
may have bugs not in the base tree.

For stuff in -bk kernel snapshots and the like that isn't in the
production kernels then I'd start by mailing Linus/(Andrew for -mm) or
the list.

Alan

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