Comment by tptacek
3 days ago
It's a wall of text about a kernel stack overflow. I'm not sure where the "Elton John" part is. Is it... that they used an accent color?
3 days ago
It's a wall of text about a kernel stack overflow. I'm not sure where the "Elton John" part is. Is it... that they used an accent color?
Maybe the researcher was wearing windshield-wiper spectacles when he discovered the vulnerability.
I don't understand why you're being so defensive about this.
Because it's a tiresome, tropey, and ultimately invalid complaint. Look downthread at the person who said the FreeBSD commit log was better than this page, despite being inscrutable to security practitioners who don't work in the kernel and not saying a word about proven exploit vectors.
These complaints aren't about what's better or worse for the user community; they're about people trying to put vulnerability researchers in their place.
While I believe whimsical names will always be silly, I do concede that commit log is effectively useless to 99% of eyeballs.
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As a member of the user community, I only care when it appears on the security list and then that it's patched. And I want to see that on the changelog. And that's about it.
I don't want or need fanfare, marketing or any of that stuff.
It's a bug for fucks sake. There will be people having web pages for Gnome user interface bugs next.
Buffer overflow.