Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:07:24 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Clement Laforet <clement@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/delegate Makefile distinfo pkg-message pkg-plist Message-ID: <20040221200724.GB51235@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040221210244.23d7fa99.clement@FreeBSD.org> References: <200402211513.i1LFDQRA012919@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040221193617.GB50771@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040221210244.23d7fa99.clement@FreeBSD.org>
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--GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 09:02:44PM +0100, Clement Laforet wrote: > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 11:36:17 -0800 > Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: >=20 > > When I audited this software and added the warning, I concluded that > > delegate was fundamentally insecure from the ground up and could not > > be fixed just by patching a few things. How has this changed, and who > > has audited the new software to verify it? >=20 > Which version did you audit ? changes in 8.x fixed most of lacks of > security in protocol implementations. Since advisories are 4 years old > (and currently, except misconfiguration, there are few risks), I thought > it was reasonnable to remove warnings. > If you still consider that this software is insecure by concept, I can > re-add them, but I wonder why you don't add the same to sendmail, bind > or whatever port which got several advisories due to bad conception. Because those were not written by someone with no concept of secure coding. That's why I said "insecure from the ground up"; there were literally hundreds of ways to exploit this software. A few of those special cases probably made it into advisories and were fixed, but claiming that the entire set of applications has been fixed requires extraordinary proof. Kris --GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAN7p8Wry0BWjoQKURArzMAKDFSLzln84Nq/gg41q9w3BnmwITVQCg4iF/ AtSqTdlGyOLJvNppzUJ6cdU= =NSzu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN--
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