On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 17:31, Tom wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:06:44PM +0800, Isaac To wrote: > > rather far from changing anything in the kernel memory. Andreas is > > definitely right that the hole doesn't look like that it is that dangerous. > > It messed up your life for a couple weeks. > > Jesus, it's not the end of the world, but that's the way Microsoft (used > to | still) thinks. > > If it wasn't a big deal we wouldn't be talking about it. It shut down > servers. It's dangerous enough. >
Of course it is a dangerous hole. As you say that has already been shown. But the point was that it didn't _look_ dangerous when the bug was discovered. Had it looked dangerous, a security update would have been issued. /Jens
