Comment 11 for bug 1793458

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Tyler Hicks (tyhicks) wrote : Re: [Bug 1793458] Re: Overlayfs in user namespace leaks directory content of inaccessible directories

On 2018-11-19 18:14:43, Philipp Wendler wrote:
> I hope that this is all just a misunderstanding and the message does not
> apply to security problems. In this case please consider changing the
> message or improving the process such that this confusion will be
> avoided for future reports.

Hi Philipp - I'm sorry about the confusion that comment caused. The
comment was created by an automated script that the kernel team uses to
help with the stable release update process. Security fixes do receive
an exception with this policy.

The common case is that we track security fixes with CVE IDs instead of
Launchpad bug reports. In this case, we do have a bug report for this
security issue so it gets lumped in with all of the other non-security
fixes that are subject to this policy.