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nickitolas 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no head...

How does that square with this comment from greg from today?

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/01/3

(About heads up to distros)

> Nope, sorry, we are NOT allowed to notify anyone about anything "ahead of time" otherwise we will have to tell everyone about everything. That's the only policy by which all the legal/governmental agencies have agreed to allow us to operate in, so we are stuck with it.

bonzini 3 months ago | [–]

I don't know, this is the one that I mentioned:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/30/5

You can see my name under "Timeline", I asked kindly for both distros-list and a longer embargo than usual and got them.

I guess Greg is not allowed to notify distros-list, but someone else is?

staticassertion 3 months ago | [–]

He's full of shit lol

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