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Date:      Wed, 9 Apr 2014 13:36:48 +0100
From:      Pawel Biernacki <pawel.biernacki@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Proposal (Was: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-14:06.openssl)
Message-ID:  <CAA3htvtb%2ByZRApEqJ41ue%2B6jB5Y_Une96SYyJRwQXBmQfRZbtQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On 9 April 2014 00:34, FreeBSD Security Advisories
<security-advisories@freebsd.org> wrote:
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> FreeBSD-SA-14:06.openssl                                    Security Advi=
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>                                                           The FreeBSD Pro=
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> Topic:          OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities
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> Category:       contrib
> Module:         openssl
> Announced:      2014-04-08
> Affects:        All supported versions of FreeBSD.
> Corrected:      2014-04-08 18:27:39 UTC (stable/10, 10.0-STABLE)
>                 2014-04-08 18:27:46 UTC (releng/10.0, 10.0-RELEASE-p1)
>                 2014-04-08 23:16:19 UTC (stable/9, 9.2-STABLE)
>                 2014-04-08 23:16:05 UTC (releng/9.2, 9.2-RELEASE-p4)
>                 2014-04-08 23:16:05 UTC (releng/9.1, 9.1-RELEASE-p11)
>                 2014-04-08 23:16:19 UTC (stable/8, 8.4-STABLE)
>                 2014-04-08 23:16:05 UTC (releng/8.4, 8.4-RELEASE-p8)
>                 2014-04-08 23:16:05 UTC (releng/8.3, 8.3-RELEASE-p15)
> CVE Name:       CVE-2014-0076, CVE-2014-0160
>

Thank you for finally patching that vulnerability. Many of us, FreeBSD
users, are deeply concerned about security. Yesterday we had a very
busy day on #FreeBSD on freenode with many people asking why there is
no SA and how to mitigate the thread or patch it on their own.

I understand that this is voluntary role and you have another (real
life) responsibilities that=E2=80=99s why I'd like to propose an idea of (a=
t
least partially) paid position of Security Officer, because we all
need quick and efficient response in cases like that.

FreeBSD Community has a good history of paying for work, many of us
supported phk@ in 2004, and recently FreeBSD Foundation hired several
people to work for all of us. Because I've no idea how Foundation had
planned a budget for this year, I don't know if there are any money
that can be allocated for that position. If not, maybe Foundation can
conduct additional public fundraising for that purpose?




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One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never
even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die=
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