On: “Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever...

[digi_owl]

That, and that a bug is a bug is a bug. Any bug can potentially be a security vulnerability with the right approach. Thus putting people that find such bugs on a pedestal is counterproductive.

[Karunamon → digi_owl]

A bug that makes your graphics flicker is not equivalent in severity or seriousness to one that lets third parties execute code on your computer.

[zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC → Karunamon]

How did you prove that it's not also a security problem? Experience shows that there are often surprising ways to abuse what seems to be a benign bug to break security of a system.

[mentat → digi_owl]

Anyone who's actually operating Linux cares about security vulnerabilities more.

[hhjkjhkjhhlkj → mentat]

Exactly which bugs are those? Linus makes valid points that people then seem to ignore and change the meaning of.

He thinks all bugs need fixing and how they are described is unimportant. Fixing the bugs is more important than how they are categorized.

[mamon → hhjkjhkjhhlkj]

I would say that the bugs for which known exploits exist definitely qualify as "security bugs". Treating them as any other bugs is just plain stupid.