"Using 'advanced static analysis':
cd drivers; grep copy_from_user -r ./* |grep -v sizeof
I discovered 4 exploitable vulnerabilities in a matter of 15 minutes. More vulnerabilities were found in 2.6 than in 2.4. It's a pretty sad state of affairs for Linux security when someone can find 4 exploitable vulnerabilities in a matter of minutes."
I am disappointed that this is cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 case. I am not a kernel developer so I won't comment on cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 difficulties associated with removing cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365se sorts of vulnerabilities. However, some of those that are kernel developers do not seem to be heeding cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 warnings in books like Building Secure Software, which I reviewed last week. This is an unfortunate indictment of part of our software engineering community, especially when Linux is being deployed in ever more important places.
More disturbing for me was this email from kernel developer Ted Ts'o in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 linux-kernel mailing list:
"Not all 2.6.x kernels will be good; but if we do releases every 1 or 2 weeks, some of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365m *will* be good."
I could be accused of taking this out of context, but to me this sort of thinking is not what I want to hear associated with a kernel called stable. This is exactly cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 point of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Slashdot commentator who brought this email to my attention. I saw cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 same mentality in The Hacker Ethic, where ESR criticizes cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 BSD development model:
BSD is "carefully coordinated... by a relatively small, tightly knit group of people" [in comparison with Linux, where] quality was maintained not by rigid standards or autocracy but by cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 naively simple strategy of releasing every week and getting feedback."
I prefer cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 BSD model, where users and administrators know that CURRENT is bleeding edge and STABLE is more or less that -- "stable." Those that need even more "stability" can track a security release, where cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 primary changes are security fixes and critical bux fixes.
I think if we continue to see this sort of development process, Linux vendors will have no choice but to heavily patch cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 "vanilla" Linux kernel and provide that patched version in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ir distros. They of course can do that, but I believe such patching contributes to cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 fragmentation of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Linux community. That increases cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 level of difficulty of writing projects like l7-filter, which itself requires patches for cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Linux kernel to operate.
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I tell ya what its things like this that really kill cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 linux community. The argument of "at least it isn't windows" doesnt't work for me. I can't claim to be a security professional and stand by a kernel that has some huge holes. I guess im off to emerge hardened-sources with grsecurity :) Thank goodness my servers run O*Bsd
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