From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jul 10 8:59: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [208.247.99.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6412137B405 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 08:59:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from zaphod ([204.68.178.35] helo=softweyr.com ident=094c52ad0093a7ddfb6c0e96e6c5a2a1) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15Jzzq-000FLf-00; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:04:22 -0600 Message-ID: <3B4B25D6.984E7EDB@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:57:10 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ryan Masse Cc: jamie rishaw , FreeBSD-Security Subject: Re: security advisories References: <00ff01c10950$86f94000$3200000a@Intranet> <20010710103255.D5972@playboy.com> <017001c10957$1c66fa00$3200000a@Intranet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ryan Masse wrote: > > complain? for those individuals with the port in question installed and who > wait for an advisory to take action in updating their source would have had > a possible security breach from the time realized to the time an advisory is > issued. Wouldn't you want an advisory as soon the bug was found? Even though > the samba bug is not of major concern what if it were more serious? Would > you want to leave your mission critical servers open to attack? The advisories are issued as soon as the puported problem has been researched, verified, and either a workaround or a fix implemented. Sometimes the workaround is as simple as "don't use this until we have a fix available," which may or may not be useful to you. As I pointed out in my previous message, you have one sure-fire way to help decrease the latency in the analysis and writing of SAs: join the team and work hard. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message