Yep. C'est d'ailleurs la conclusion de l'article LWN:
"The most unfortunate aspect of the bug is the length of time it took to fix. Not just the two months between its discovery and fix, but also the five years since Delalleau's presentation. We need to get better at paying attention to publicly accessible security reports and fixing the problems they describe.".
[^] # Re: Découvert et corrigé en 2004... puis oublié
Posté par patrick_g (site web personnel) . En réponse à la dépêche Problème de sécurité entre le serveur X et le noyau. Évalué à 2.
"The most unfortunate aspect of the bug is the length of time it took to fix. Not just the two months between its discovery and fix, but also the five years since Delalleau's presentation. We need to get better at paying attention to publicly accessible security reports and fixing the problems they describe.".