From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 24 0:26: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (mail.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6919A37B403 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 00:25:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15aBLS-000ALL-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:25:34 +0300 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:25:33 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: FBSD-Q Subject: [fwd] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:56.tcp_wrappers (from: security-advisories@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <20010824102533.E20953@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , FBSD-Q Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5QAgd0e35j3NYeGe" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 10:19AM up 1 day, 14:26, 3 users, load averages: 1.11, 1.10, 1.08 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --5QAgd0e35j3NYeGe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I received this today. My question is: Why do we get the security notifications so much later than when the correction was done?=20 For those of use who do minitor the -cvs-all/ -stable and do UPDATEs on almost a weekly basis, isn't this far much overtaken by events. Someone cares to explain this to me? Why this late? Thanks [snip] From: FreeBSD Security Advisories Reply-To: postmaster@freebsd.org To: FreeBSD Security Advisories Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:57:12 -0700 (PDT) Subject: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:56.tcp_wrappers =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D FreeBSD-SA-01:56 Security Advisory FreeBSD, In= c. Topic: tcp_wrappers PARANOID hostname checking does not work Category: core Module: tcp_wrappers Announced: 2001-08-23 Credits: Tony Finch Affects: FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE before the correction date Corrected: 2001-07-04 20:18:11 UTC (FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE) 2001-07-04 20:18:54 UTC (RELENG_4_3) FreeBSD only: Yes [snip] -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.=20 -Tallulah Bankhead=20 --5QAgd0e35j3NYeGe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7hgFsn7LIsuxjem8RAkiDAJ4gS/yAmOLtm2Qy+lS+l1ug4FsM1gCeJsal rmz17DKHREtM+5yG33hZXSs= =6AlL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5QAgd0e35j3NYeGe-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message