Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 09:38:48 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Frank Tobin <ftobin@uiuc.edu>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two kinds of advisories? Message-ID: <396F3408.22A29617@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000713235432.78016C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> > This is already apparent from the "FreeBSD only: NO" in most of the 33
> > advisories this year, but it's not professional to name the other
> > platforms explicitly (besides the fact that we can't always be sure, as I
> > learned once the hard way when I overestimated the severity of a NetBSD
> > vulnerability).
>
> Absolutely. I see anything other than a claim about it being specific to
> us as being unprofessional. I've seen some other advisories from other
> groups that rashly claim things like, ``Affects all other UNIX operating
> systems,'' which is almost always false :-). The best we can do is
> declare whether or not we believe there is the potential for affecting
> other operating systems or not, and accept that the bug affects us.
Precisely. I'd like to thank Kris, Warner, and anyone else involved in
the Security team for the professional quality of the FreeBSD Security
Advisories, and for the volume of them and the work that represents.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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