Greetings, Am Mittwoch, 14. April 2004 22:18 schrieb Exibar: > are you kidding me? for years and years all I've heard from *nix people is > how secure the OS is and that there aren't as many patches needed for it > and if a vuln is found a patch is released right away....
hey, hey. Slow down. The number of patches is not a direct indicator of the security of a system. More complex system require more complex patches and more patches. What you see here, is a DSA _synchronised_ with the release of 2.4.26. That means, that because of no exploits going around here, some distributors doesn't see any need to release fixes, before a the major distributors and kernel.org could release the new versions. Because kernel-release-version do not have a crappy patch-level-number, a lot of issues were fixed in a new release. (Imagine you have a new release number for every single one turned into a zero in the sources, every != turned into a ==) This time, five of them were security related. What's your point? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Sage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please learn to quote. Keep smiling yanosz _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
