From owner-freebsd-security Mon Oct 2 12:33:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A327237B66C for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 12:33:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e92JX0N21972; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 21:33:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: James Wyatt Cc: Brett Glass , "Chris D . Faulhaber" , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftpd bug in FreeBSD through at least 3.4 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Oct 2000 14:22:24 CDT." Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 21:33:00 +0200 Message-ID: <21970.970515180@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message , Jam es Wyatt writes: >On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <4.3.2.7.2.20001002124607.00df8150@localhost>, Brett Glass writes: >> >At 12:35 PM 10/2/2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> > >> >>3.4 is a dead branch, 2.x even more so. >> > >> >People are still running it 3.x, though. LOTS of people. >> >> Doesn't change the fact that it's a dead branch. > >Doesn't change the fact that "LOTS of people" are still running it... >Geez, what a curt, rude, throw-your-hands-up answer. > >Are you saying that if we found a terrible bug (not this easy one) >somewhere critical in 3.5.%d, we'd all have to immediatly upgrade? - Jy@ Yes, I am saying that. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message