Secure testing team - Mar 2006 - Re: Bug#328395: CAN-2005-2801: ext2 ext3 xattr access control bypass

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:38:51PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:05:41PM +1000, Geoff Crompton wrote:
> > Package: linux-2.6
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > Ref http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14793
> > 
> > The kernel team is aware of this issue, and fixes are in the kernel
> > teams svn at svn.debian.org.
> > 
> > I created this report so as I couldn''t find this issue
mentioned in the
> > BTS. Please tag it with security and sarge.
> 
> Reporting bugs for problems that are already resolved in SVN
> just creates work, and believe me we have enough of that already.
> 
> Security bugs are already being tracked by the testing-security
> team, I think thats a much more workable framework for handling this.
I understand this, and I certainly appreciate your help.

Probably the best way to fix this problem is to set up
automation between the SVN changelogs, what the testing-security
guys are doing, and the BTS (for kernel packages).

-- 
Horms