Re: RFC: security fixes to stable kernels

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 9 Jul 1998 16:48:56 +0100 (BST)

> > It isnt a three liner.
>
> --- fcntl.c Tue Jun 30 02:03:34 1998
> +++ fcntl.c Tue Jun 30 02:03:52 1998

You've missed the other security fixed

> Well, AFAIKS, your other security hole isn't as well
> known as the SIGIO issue, so leaving it to .36 seems
> reasonable. A 35 release like the above wouldn't delay
> the next real release.

Its not reasonable, one of the other two is known and
published the other one people hit occasionally by
accident causing machine crashes.

Alan

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