Horms wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 03:25:41PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:27:58AM +0900, Horms wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:59:24AM +0100, Tomasz Malesinski wrote:
> > > > Why hasn't the bug #266882 (CAN-2004-0554 i387.h in kernel: asm
> > > > volatile("fnclex ; fwait");) has not been fixed in 2.4.18 for so long?
> > >
> > > That and a host of others. Security-Team, Is there ever going to be a
> > > new kernel for Woody?
> >
> > Any patches that you can provide would be gratefully received. The kernel
> > has a huge number of vulnerabilities, and more are discovered all the time.
> > Since the resources of the security team are limited, this work needs to be
> > distributed to package maintainers wherever possible.
>
> Understood. Would it be helpful if security patches for the 2.4 kernel
> were forwarded to the security-team as they are added to SVN for
> inclusion in unstable and thus testing? Perhaps being better about
> opening entries on the BTS for security bugs, being better about
> posting patches to these entires, and being better about tagging
> them as security would be a mechanism to do this.
Yes, that would help a lot.
Regards,
Joey
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