Re: Linux 2.6.17.10

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> > Sridhar Samudrala:
>> >       Fix sctp privilege elevation (CVE-2006-3745)
>> 
>> I've seen gazillions of CVE numbers for SCTP over the past months.
>> 
>> Should perhaps SCTP be dropped from the kernel until it has been audited
>> for security by at least two independent parties?
>
>the thing, luckily no one really uses it in the wild :)

If other OS (such as mswin32) supported it, it would indeed get more 
testing.


Jan Engelhardt
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