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Date:      Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:58:47 -0400
From:      "David Magda" <dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca>
To:        sthaug@nethelp.no
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bind in FreeBSD, security advisories
Message-ID:  <89db71bfd414c1de47cd125f47d322d6.squirrel@webmail.ee.ryerson.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20130731.085541.74748290.sthaug@nethelp.no>
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On Wed, July 31, 2013 02:55, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:

> I'm also more than a little surprised about people dragging out
> sendmail as a shining example of *good* (bug-free?) software. Does
> nobody remember any history here? It wasn't *that* many years ago
> that we seemed to have "sendmail-bug-of-the-day"...

Seven years ago and ten years ago:

http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:17.sendmail.asc
http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:13.sendmail.asc
http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:13.sendmail.asc
http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:11.sendmail.asc
http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:07.sendmail.asc
http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:04.sendmail.asc

In the same time period, BIND has had eighteen advisories. OpenSSL has had
fourteen.





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