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Date:      Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:12:11 +0200
From:      Harald Muehlboeck <home@clef.at>
To:        freebsd security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: iDefense Security Advisory 10.10.06: FreeBSD ptrace PT_LWPINFO Denial of Service Vulnerability
Message-ID:  <86odsfmi3o.fsf@tuha.clef.at>
In-Reply-To: <452C25A2.6080809@freebsd.org> (Colin Percival's message of "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:58:42 -0700")
References:  <20061010185141.ce3e7134.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <452C25A2.6080809@freebsd.org>

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Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> writes:

>> "The policy of the FreeBSD Security Team is that local denial of service
>> bugs not be treated as security issues; it is possible that this problem
>> will be corrected in a future Erratum."
>
> If there was any potential for
> (a) privilege escalation,
> (b) disclosure of potentially sensitive information, or
> (c) denial of service by a non-authenticated attacker,
> we would have issued a security advisory.

I am missing this information on <http://www.freebsd.org/security/>.

The site does not say wich bugs are treated as security issue and
which are not. Perhaps these three points above can be added to the
website.




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