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?
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?
Buffer overflow.
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.
It's not even a complete description of the vulnerability. It's what the kernel maintainers need to know to understand and fix the bug in the code. The claim that it's superior to the branded vulnerability page gives away the whole game.