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Reporting Kernel Security Issues

Posted by timothy on from the top-men-are-working-on-it dept.

Omniscientist writes "A recent post on KernelTrap details the lkml post by Chris Wright talking about a centralized place to report security issues pertaining to the Linux Kernel and the discussion that was generated by it, including Chris's followup. It would appear that they now have created a security team to privately handle the bugs, who act as the alternative to reporting the flaw to the public immediately."

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  1. Re:Good idea? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Did you actually read the fine thread? All Chris is doing is creating a single point of contact for security related bugs. The current situation is that bugs are reported randomly to lkml, distros or whereever so some may fall through the net.

    A single point of contact is a good thing in my book.