From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 26 19:54:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF0037B43F for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 19:54:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a121.otenet.gr [212.205.215.121]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3R2sbe5006797; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 05:54:38 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3R2saGl015978; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 05:54:36 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.2/Submit) id g3R2sZFs015977; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 05:54:35 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 05:54:35 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Eric Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: security patching Message-ID: <20020427025435.GC96728@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i 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 On 2002-04-24 23:51, Eric wrote: > I am not a coder, I just read the papers. But what about the recent zlib > problem; the tainted code is tremendously widespread as I understand it. But did not affect FreeBSD because phk@FreeBSD.org has done a wonderful job when he wrote the malloc() stuff of FreeBSD. > Also, was there not a stdio problem recently? And there are others > that permit local or remote root comprimise. And sure enough there have been security announcements for all of them, with fixes. Just make sure you watch the security announcements carefully enough ;) - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message