From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 28 12:37:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C62A816A420 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:37:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 390F343D48 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:37:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr4so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.107]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0INJ00AAN1Q4B750@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 06:37:16 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml6so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.150]) by pd2mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0INJ00IS81Q4FW30@pd2mr4so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 06:37:16 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0INJ00J0T1Q4WK@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 06:37:16 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 05:37:15 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <433AA66C.70603@web.de> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tobias_Mohrl=FCder?= Message-id: <433A8E7B.9020307@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 References: <433AA66C.70603@web.de> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050920) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should I write bug report? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:37:17 -0000 Tobias Mohrlüder wrote: > I've experienced a bug that causes a reboot under FreeBSD 5.4 and I > wonder if I should write an 'open' bug report or a 'secret' mail to one > of the FreeBSD developers. This bug doesn't seem to be hardware-related > and is easily reproducible by a normal user (with no special > privileges), so the latter is perhaps the better option. Please send the details to the FreeBSD security team at . We don't consider local denial of service problems (which is what this sounds like) to be security issues, but we always like to investigate them to make sure that there isn't anything more serious. Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer