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Date:      Wed, 01 Dec 1999 09:26:26 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
Cc:        tstromberg@rtci.com, freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Where to start? Heres a few overflows. 
Message-ID:  <199912011626.JAA02551@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Dec 1999 17:22:27 %2B0100." <v04205513b46afa98c429@[195.238.21.204]> 
References:  <v04205513b46afa98c429@[195.238.21.204]>  <384527B9.3A3E3C41@rtci.com> <38445A6A.50245AF5@rtci.com> <199911302322.QAA05983@harmony.village.org> <199912011609.JAA02320@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <v04205513b46afa98c429@[195.238.21.204]> Brad Knowles writes:
: 	As I recall, one of the goals that OpenBSD used in their audit 
: process was that they fixed bugs wherever they ran across them, 
: regardless of whether they believed they were exploitable.  This has 
: protected them against a number of exploits that have since become 
: known, since the bug that someone is trying to exploit simply no 
: longer exists under OpenBSD.
: 
: 	Do we not want to employ the same kind of methodology, or have I 
: missed something here?

Yes, we do, but we don't want to put everything into stable on an
expitited basis unless there is a compelling reason to expitite the
change.  We do want to merge these changes into stable when they have
stood the test of time in -current first.  That's my only point here.

Warner


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