From owner-freebsd-security Fri Jul 14 3:21:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from zeta.qmw.ac.uk (zeta.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.6.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A29037B76F for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 03:21:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from d.m.pick@qmw.ac.uk) Received: from xi.css.qmw.ac.uk ([138.37.8.11]) by zeta.qmw.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 13D2as-0002UO-00 for security@freebsd.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 11:21:18 +0100 Received: from cgaa180 by xi.css.qmw.ac.uk with local (Exim 1.92 #1) for security@FreeBSD.ORG id 13D2as-0006Yk-00; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 11:21:18 +0100 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Displacement of Blame[tm] In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:09:32 +0200." <20000714120932.A63784@mithrandr.moria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 11:21:18 +0100 From: David Pick Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Fri 2000-07-14 (10:53), David Pick wrote: > > A little shorter: > > FreeBSD Port Security Advisory > > This will still be counted by automated advisory things, which was one > of the stated problems. Depends on how they classify the text; if they use only the first word then this statement is true. > > Alternatively: > > FreeBSD Port of : Security Advisory > > > > This will still be counted by automated advisory things, which was one > of the stated problems. Ditto. > It also claims the problem is in the FreeBSD port of , and not in > . Not quite - I was trying to indicate that the message contained *advice* about the FreeBSD port of . The root problem might be in: - the original package - the port itself - FreeBSD core facility as used by the port and the advisory will hopefully contain details of patches or avoidance methods that are applicable specifically to the FreeBSD environment. But I suspect no form of words will satisy everyone. Perhaps after a few more people have put their heads above the parapet and actually made suggestions an election would be in order. -- David Pick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message