From owner-freebsd-security Sun Nov 24 7:19: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAE4F37B401 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 07:18:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.nectar.cc (gw.nectar.cc [208.42.49.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40C5243E6E for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 07:18:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.cc) Received: by gw.nectar.cc (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8440495; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 09:18:58 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 09:18:58 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Mike Silbersack , "David G. Andersen" , freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File table exhaustion patch Message-ID: <20021124151858.GA69907@hellblazer.nectar.cc> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Sheldon Hearn , Mike Silbersack , "David G. Andersen" , freebsd-security@freebsd.org References: <20021121105204.B75421@cs.utah.edu> <20021121152539.U44884-100000@patrocles.silby.com> <20021122080515.GQ36738@starjuice.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021122080515.GQ36738@starjuice.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Url: http://www.celabo.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:05:15AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On (2002/11/21 15:29), Mike Silbersack wrote: > > > HOWEVER, we're in a code freeze leading up to 5.0-release, and local DoSes > > aren't a critical bug. > > Is that the official FreeBSD SO team viewpoint on local DoS > vulnerabilities? Yes, although we still address the most severe cases (with fixes and advisories). Cheers, -- Jacques A. Vidrine http://www.celabo.org/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message