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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:59:13 +0100
From: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Linux kernel address leaks

On lun., 2010-11-22 at 18:54 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> Oh, and if you get CVEs assigned, that kind of forces them to fix the
> problem, right?
> 
I'm not that sure (there are CVEs for issues considered too small by the
developers involved, not only in Linux, which are still opened), and I'm
not sure using CVE system for “blackmailing” is a good usage for that
tool.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

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