From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jul 10 12: 6:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from gomor.homeip.net (ABrest-101-1-1-82.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.14.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 464E337B403 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:06:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from GomoR@chez.com) Received: from mail.gomor.homeip.net (mail.gomor.homeip.net [192.168.0.3]) by gomor.homeip.net (8.11.3/8.11.1) with SMTP id f6AJ76g64697 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 21:07:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from GomoR@chez.com) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 21:07:05 +0200 From: GomoR To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: security advisories Message-ID: <20010710210705.A64685@agathon.gomor.homeip.net> References: <00ff01c10950$86f94000$3200000a@Intranet> <20010710103255.D5972@playboy.com> <017001c10957$1c66fa00$3200000a@Intranet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <017001c10957$1c66fa00$3200000a@Intranet>; from rmasse@mastery.ca on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 17:43:48 +0200 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.1.4 Lines: 31 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 On 2001.07.10 17:43 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? > > Ryan If "those individuals" wanted to be aware of new security holes as quick as they are discovered, maybe they only need to subscribe to a security mailing list like the bugtraq one. I think security auditing is a full time job, and the FreeBSD team appear to be beginnger to this field. GomoR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FreeBSD Network - http://www.freebsd-network.fr.st/ A la recherche d'un emploi en Administration UNIX/Securite CV: http://gomor.homeip.net/Informations/cv.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =-----=> root is the only God I believe in <=-----= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message