From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 1 06:11:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA11612 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 06:11:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA11603 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 06:11:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from diabolique.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.58.216]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA5E6B; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 15:11:30 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199811011030.EAA04165@poseidon.host4u.net> Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 15:15:20 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Dan Langille Subject: RE: how to determine if a bug has been fixed Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 01-Nov-98 Dan Langille wrote: > I was looking at "Incomplete List of UNIX Vulnerabilities" > (http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer/unixsecurity/unix_vuln.html) when I > had a thought. > > How can I find out if a given bug listed there has been repaired? (with > respect to FreeBSD). Ask around on freebsd-security Most of the fixes are incorporated. If OpenBSD (or in a lesser matter NetBSD) fixes a security bug FreeBSD will incorporate it as well if deemed necessary. HTH, --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl Junior Network/Security Specialist FreeBSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message