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by flumpcakes 39 days ago
7 days from disclosure to publishing a how-to guide to get root to the entire planet doesn't scream "responsible" disclosure to me.
3 comments

Its not the reporter's fault that other people broke the embargo.
They don't have to publish a working exploit as soon as the embargo is broken, though.
Perhaps, but if the exploit code is published folks can double-check that they implemented the mitigations properly.

If there's no PoC, how can you really be sure?

Why not? There has already been a working exploit floating around, at least now it comes from an authoritative source.
anyone who will use the exploit maliciously will immediately and trivially be able to create a working exploit.
An exploit was already published.
The third party posted an exploit.
My immediate reaction was the same.

But this is very similar to Copy Fail, and I'm assuming there was an assumption that others might also discover this soon as well. Hence the urgency.

At least that's my charitable interpretation.

WTF cares? Publish them without disclosure is the true way, otherwise noone would care about security and your data.