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

[Cliff Pratt]

Grant McLean wrote:
> 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.
> 
So all software code should be restricted so that people don't find 
exploitable bugs? <grin>

Cheers,

Cliff

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