[wellylug] Critical Linux secrity hole, bad news & good news.

Grant McLean grant at mclean.net.nz
Fri May 5 12:06:22 NZST 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 11:51 +1200, Martin Wehipeihana wrote:
> Brent Wood wrote:
> > Critical flaws do happen, but fixes are quick :-)
> > 
> > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1956652,00.asp?kc=ewnws050306dtx1k0000599
> > 
> 
> Do they code audit windaz as well?

Exactly.  The real story here is not that Linux (well X actually) had a
security flaw - all software has bugs after all.  The real story is that
an independent organisation was able to discover the flaw by feeding the
source code into an automated software audit tool.  They didn't even
need to ask the people who wrote the software.

Cheers
Grant




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