[Sheflug] Re: 2.4.4

[Richard Ibbotson <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Baz

> Especially with Al Viro doing a bit of a clean up - he seems to be
> finding a few format string type bugs, poor error checking, that
> sort of thing - something OpenBSD looked a years back.

Listening to the words of Rusty Russell, Kurt Seigfreid and perhaps 
even Linus Torvalds and the Manchester Computing Centre I wouldn't be 
prepared to believe this.  There's also an Open BSD developer over in 
Germany whose thesis is mostly about firewall management on Linux 
systems.  His job is Linux security.  If you can ignore him then you 
really are in trouble.

When the new 2.2 kernels came along and the 2.0.3x kernels were still 
in use I had the annual argument with MCC about this and they said 
that they thought that my argument that early versions of new kernels 
weren't good in the security department was entirely valid.

Something similar is going on around me now.  I see a small crowd of 
people who think that early 2.4 kernels are secure.  The larger crowd 
prefer to use the 2.2 kernels. And, I can't argue with their 
opinions.

Thanks


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Richard
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