Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:07:58 +0000 From: Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk (Dominic Mitchell) To: Dave McKay <dave@mu.org> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports security advisories.. Message-ID: <20000321110758.B913@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000320154614.A63670@elvis.mu.org>; from dave@mu.org on Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 09:46:14PM -0000 References: <20000320154614.A63670@elvis.mu.org>
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 09:46:14PM -0000, Dave McKay wrote: > Is it really necessary to post the ports security advisories? > The exploitable programs are not part of the FreeBSD OS, they > are third party software. I think the proper place for these > is the Bugtraq mailing list on securityfocus.com. Also to add > to the arguments, most of the advisories are not FreeBSD > specific. Just to add a point here, some of the problems noted in these advisories *have* been FreeBSD specific, due to the way that a port has modified the default install, or suchlike. So it's definitely up to us to point this out. -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator ``Putting the doh! into dot-com.'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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