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Date:      Fri, 28 Sep 2001 02:04:47 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Rob Andrews <rob@cyberpunkz.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD a good choice for high performance webservers?
Message-ID:  <20010928020447.A8606@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <70310952606.20010928102525@buz.ch>; from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:25:25AM %2B0200
References:  <60164745040.20010926174838@buz.ch> <20010926095640.C86198@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010926123312.A51520@switchblade.cyberpunkz.org> <187172118202.20010926195131@buz.ch> <20010926220622.A92357@xor.obsecurity.org> <70310952606.20010928102525@buz.ch>

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On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:25:25AM +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
> Hello Kris,
>=20
> Thursday, September 27, 2001, 7:06:22 AM, you wrote:
> >> would happen if someone found a remote root hole in OpenBSD?
> >> Exactly.=20
> > I'm not sure what you're trying to say here..OpenBSD has had plenty
> > of remote root holes lately.
>=20
> "Four years without a remote hole in the default install!"
>=20
> but apparently none in the default install which is the only thing
> they really care for to make the above statement.

Be careful..the version they were shipping a year and a half ago
(OpenBSD 2.7?) had a remote root exploit in the default install
(telnetd).  The "four years" number is only true by a very roundabout
interpretation -- it certainly doesn't mean what you expect it to.

Kris

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