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In stark contrast to the long waits typical for Windows users wanting to patch software vulnerabilities, recently discovered security weaknesses in the core of the Linux operating system were addressed by major vendors in a matter of just a few days this week. Two security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel's memory management code reported by security researcher iSEC were addressed and are now fixed in versions 2.4.25 and 2.6.3 of the Linux kernel. Linux vendors and distributors that have released fix updates include Red Hat, Novell's SuSE Linux and the Debian Project.
Re: Linux Security Holes Opened and Closed
Posted by: bangular 2004-02-20 20:23:03 In reply to: Jay Lyman
Patches should only take a few days at the most. Espically when the affected code is almost always under a hundred lines of code. A good deal of the time it's just a programming mistake and not a design flaw. I don't buy this whole "we want to make sure it works properly" crap. Microsoft programmers crank out thousands and thousands of lines of code a day. Why would fixing under 100 lines of code be such a huge task? Half the problem is binary patches suck major ass. Most open source vendors don't offer binary patches. They offer source code patches (which work a million times better) and updated packages.
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It almost seems like a lazyness factor on the part of Microsoft. Almost all their patches suck. They cause systems to hang at boot, cause registry problems, kernel errors, and more. Even service packs which are supposed to be stable can cause the same types of problems. MS seems to be unique in it's patching problems. I've never heard of other operating systems having break so many things while still taking so long to come out. Though I'm willing to bet most of the problems lead back to the hack they call the registry.
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It almost seems like a lazyness factor on the part of Microsoft. Almost all their patches suck. They cause systems to hang at boot, cause registry problems, kernel errors, and more. Even service packs which are supposed to be stable can cause the same types of problems. MS seems to be unique in it's patching problems. I've never heard of other operating systems having break so many things while still taking so long to come out. Though I'm willing to bet most of the problems lead back to the hack they call the registry.
