Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 23:06:42 -0700 (PDT) From: William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, spork <spork@super-g.com> Subject: Re: Security Alerts Message-ID: <XFMail.990903230642.wwoods@cybcon.com> In-Reply-To: <67508.936401799@localhost>
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Jordan, I don't know C programming very well at all, I am starting a C class in a week, but is there something I could do to help with this situation? William On 03-Sep-99 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> So what I'm wondering is whether the project is in need of someone to >> digest, discuss, and regurgitate some of these things into security >> advisories. I personally can appreciate the fact that an ordinary user or >> admin might not be able to follow every bug that comes up on bugtraq or on > > More than actually generating advisories, something which our security > officers do a pretty reasonable job on, what we *really* need is > someone to test the existing advisories/random reports/etc and figure > out which exploits or DoS attacks are actually genuine. Quite a bit > of stuff gets sent to the security list and quite a bit of it often > has no applicability whatsoever to FreeBSD, leading to a situation > where security officers put it on the "test this at some point" pile > and that pile can get pretty deep. When faced with a "this has been > tested and the following releases of FreeBSD are vulnerable" sort of > message, however, they know that it's clearly a matter for immediate > attention and it gets "escallated" quite a bit. > > - Jordan > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com> Date: 03-Sep-99 Time: 22:48:29 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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