Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The Kernel Bug, the Missing Patch and the 6-Years-Later Fix
So widely acknowledged are the security advantages of Linux that on those rare occasions when a bug is found, it tends to makes quite a splash. Such, in fact, is just what happened recently when news broke of the Linux kernel bug that -- it turns out -- had been around since 2004. A fix was actually supplied back then by SUSE maintainer Andrea Arcangeli, but it never got incorporated into the Linux kernel.
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