You are not authorised to read this bug?

Russell Strong russell at strong.id.au
Sat Oct 7 11:38:10 UTC 2006


Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 20:41 +1000, Russell Strong wrote:
>   
>> I'm not authorised to see this bug?
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169609
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> Is my system at risk?
>>
>> Is this security through obscurity?
>>
>> Since when did some fedora users become more equal than others?
>>     
>
> There's probably an embargo in force so that all major vendors can
> release security updates at the same time when the security issue is
> made public.
>
> Paul.
>
>   
What ever it is.  It would be nice if bugzilla stated a reason for 
denying access.  So far the guesses are:

RHEL bug ( I wouldn't be happy, if I was a RHEL user and saw this )
Microsoft owned Bugzilla :) ( My favourite )
Security Embargo

But how do we really know?  How much do we trust Redhat?




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