Re: [security] Big problem on 2.0.x? (fwd)

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 15:14:34 +0100 (CET)


On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

>review a 2.0.39 suggested set from someone who is willing to do all the leg
>work.

Could you tell me about the other known bugs privately? I don't care at
all about minor issues or new device drivers. If somebody wants more
feature or 2.0.x happens to be unstable he should upgrade to 2.2.x. I only
care about installed systems that if are running 2.0.x it means 2.0.x is
rock solid for them. In such envinronment only a security issue can
generate troubles. So I think I can care about security issues in the most
important subsystems (of the order of the ping -R crash at least) to not
force admin to upgrade to 2.2.x due security exploits. They should upgrade
ASAP though (2.0.x security fixes have low priority).

Andrea

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