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Re: Any idea when CVE-2016-5696 is going to get fixed?



Hi,

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Normally security things are pushed right on thru particularly 
> when they are a one file changed in the whole kernel source tree.  Why 
> not this time?

I guess because it is easy to work around

  https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/challengeack

and the maintainers don't want to shoot their foot immediately again
by a hasty bugfix release.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas


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