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Policy for posting security bug reports?
- From: Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal dot cx>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:08:36 -0400
- Subject: Policy for posting security bug reports?
Hi all,
I first asked Carlos about this off-list, and he suggested it should
be discussed on-list. What is the policy (or what should it be) for
posting security-related bugs to the bug tracker and/or list?
At the moment, the bug I'd like to report is something I would
consider moderate severity; it's in a family of interfaces that aren't
often used in programs running with elevated privilegs, but if
exploited, it leads to memory corruption that could result in
arbitrary code execution. I can provide a patch to fix it along with
the report.
Of course, it would be nice to have a general policy.
--
Rich Felker
http://www.etalabs.net