From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Mar 18 12:25: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D3DB37B400; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:24:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020318202458.TFFS2626.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:24:58 +0000 Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2IKOw133215; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:24:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200203182024.g2IKOw133215@bmah.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" , Udo Erdelhoff , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, security-officer@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common new.sgml In-reply-to: <20020317231953.GD36506@hellblazer.nectar.cc> References: <200203090112.g291C4A36851@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020310191230.E89278@nathan.ruhr.de> <200203131650.g2DGoWr36860@bmah.dyndns.org> <20020317231953.GD36506@hellblazer.nectar.cc> Comments: In-reply-to "Jacques A. Vidrine" message dated "Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:19:53 -0600." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:24:57 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If memory serves me right, "Jacques A. Vidrine" wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 08:50:32AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > If memory serves me right, Udo Erdelhoff wrote: > > > but I think this part should be clearer. According to the advisories > > > I have read, a 'bad' server can abuse the client. My suggestion > > > is to replace this part with "or allowed a malicous SSH server to > > > execute arbitrary code on the client system with the privileges of > > > the client user". > > > > Sorry for the delay. You're probably right here...any comments from the > > security officer team? > > I think Udo's suggestion would indeed be clearer. Great. I'll commit this. > On the other hand, summarizing security advisories can be tricky > business. You might want to consider in the future just saying, ``Foo > was b0rken. See FreeBSD-SA-02:NN.foo'' or some such to save yourself > the trouble. It's not troublesome...usually I get it right but for a variety of reasons I was sloppy on SA-02:13. Thanks, Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message