Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 05:54:35 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Eric <swive@getnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: security patching Message-ID: <20020427025435.GC96728@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <LJEKLADNACECPPOMAFPHKEFECAAA.swive@getnet.com> References: <LJEKLADNACECPPOMAFPHKEFECAAA.swive@getnet.com>
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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
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