From: Florian Weimer (fwdeneb.enyo.de)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2006 - 23:34:23 CDT

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> On 11 Jul 2006 at 9:57, Dave Aitel wrote:
>> This is the difference between Linux and Windows. If this had been
>> Microsoft they would have just changed the behavior silently or made it
>> part of some other patch and hoped no one noticed.
>
> sorry if i missed the sarcasm above, but are you suggesting that the
> following is actually what it is claimed to be? ;-)
>
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7c85d1f9d358b24c5b05c3a2783a78423775a080

Most kernel bug fixes are not reviewed for their security impact.
This means that a lot of things are in fact fixed silently. Perhaps
it's not as deliberate as what Microsoft is doing, but as a side
effect, some of these fixes are not picked up by vendors and do not
end up in their kernels, even though the bug fix has been published.
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