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Linux gets fix for code-execution flaw that was undetected since 2009

Time to move on .... "Maintainers of the Linux kernel have patched one of the more serious security bugs to be disclosed in the open source operating system in recent months. The five-year-old code-execution hole leaves computers used in shared Web hosting services particularly vulnerable, so users and administrators should make sure systems are running updated versions that contain a fix." ... [ »arstechnica.com/security ··· ce-2009/ ]

Link Logger
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Once again security isn't easy.

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Patches came down through apt-get for all Ubuntu distributions from 12.04 up through 14.04 on May 5th and 6th if you're playing along at home.

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Developing and testing too.
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...this story in light of the brouhaha generated by Heartbleed makes one wonder "so where's your OSS God now?" [/sarcasm] [/cynicism]

2nd Link Logger See Profile 's comment... we can only see where this one goes...

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Yea. No closed source OS would have holes so old. NSA has the sources and makes sure that bugs don't last that long. [/sarcasm][/cynicism]
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...I should have added that a) this is not to knock either OSS software or the movement itself, and b) this was more for
the types that I've seen that espouse OSS "becuase it's more [insert adjective / praise / etc] than closed-source."

My personal corollary to stuff like this this has always been "if it can be made by human hands, it can be broken by human hands."

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