Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:57:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two kinds of advisories? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000713145653.69079E-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20000713142735.K4034@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 02:21:09PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > > > That was the whole point of putting "ports" in there in the first place, a > > relatively recent change. The advisories are very careful to distinguish > > the ports/packages from the base system, and to disclaim responsibility > > for them. I think we've done the right thing as it stands. At some > > point, people will need to understand that distinction for themselves. > > Well, it is when we do it right. See the "ports advisory" for the recent > ipopts pagefault stuff. The theory is right, it's just the implementation that is lacking. Like in physics... :-) Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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