From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 6 16:53:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA18837 for current-outgoing; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 16:53:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA18831 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 16:53:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.5/CET-v2.1) with SMTP id AAA05670; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 00:52:34 GMT Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 09:52:33 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Warner Losh cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Craig Shaver , current@freebsd.org Subject: How paranoid is Theo? (was Re: Karl fulminates, film at 11. == , thanks) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Warner Losh wrote: > I just want to say that -core has been supportive of any and all > security related efforts that I have brought to their attention. > OpenBSD has fixed a lot of stuff, and I've been reviewing them > (slowly) and they have helped me fix a few problems as well. A nice, > polite note to -core offering to do work in this area was all that it > took to get this response. Didn't want to announce anything until I > had made significant progress, which due to excessive chaos in my > personal life I've not been able to do. With the stuff you've looked at so far does it look like Theo is going after each and every buffer overflow possibility or the just the ones that can be exploited? Mike Hancock