From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 14 15:49:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7933A37B59E for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 15:49:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id PAA23095; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 15:49:05 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda23093; Sat Apr 14 15:49:00 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.2/8.9.1) id f3EMmtB46520; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 15:48:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdR46518; Sat Apr 14 15:48:17 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f3EMmFK63219; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 15:48:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200104142248.f3EMmFK63219@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdq63114; Sat Apr 14 15:48:10 2001 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-Sender: schubert To: Jason Nugent Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a word of appreciation In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Apr 2001 10:05:09 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 15:48:10 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Jason Nu gent writes: > > Folks, > > I'm not sure how much you get of this, but I just wanted to say thanks to > all of you working on the freebsd project. You do fine work. I'm not > sure how often you get to hear that, so I'm going to say it now. > > I just finished a routine upgrade of my FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE machine to > 4.3-RC, in order to make sure that the circulated ftp glob() vulnerability > wouldn't affect my system. > > I'm curious, though, if the lib-paranoia library in the ports collection > would have prevented the exploit from happening in the first place. Has > anyone experimented with this? I've been using FreeBSD since 2.0.5. I've been very pleased with the quality of the O/S. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message