[pca] 118666-36 & 118667-36

Jeff Wieland wieland at purdue.edu
Wed Feb 15 16:16:28 CET 2012


Martin Paul wrote:
> Jeff Wieland wrote:
>> How are we supposed to figure out what priority to give to installing
>> a patch when the README says:
>
> Don O'Malley recently a long reply to a similar query by Dennis 
> Clarke. My interpretation was that bug reports often get shortened to 
> "problem with XXX" when Oracle doesn't want to give out information 
> about security issues.
>
> So the conclusion would be that any "problem with XXX" in a patch 
> README means "high priority". No idea whether that's a reasonable 
> approach.
>
> Martin.
>

I must have missed that.

Security via obscurity - yeah, that works.

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