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Date:      Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:59:53 +1100
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Security Exploits found in FreeBSD 4.10's ports tree.
Message-ID:  <20041216065953.GH1435@k7.mavetju>
In-Reply-To: <20041216010359.51904.qmail@web51604.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20041216010359.51904.qmail@web51604.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 05:03:59PM -0800, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> This made it to Slashdot today, but what they didn't mention is that the
> xploits were found in FreeBSD 4.10's ports tree (at least the few that I've
> checked):

Another reason not to compile assembler sourcecode you get mailed
from unknown sources with devel/nasm: I always knew it would bite
me in the ankles!

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