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Date:      Thu, 22 Jun 2017 13:31:16 +0200
From:      Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
To:        Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net>
Cc:        Remko Lodder <remko@FreeBSD.org>, "freebsd-security@freebsd.org" <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: The Stack Clash vulnerability
Message-ID:  <20170622113115.GN19203@e-new.0x20.net>
In-Reply-To: <187b2241-510e-20f8-50c6-16b318e22e89@sorbs.net>
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On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 01:14:33PM +0200, Michelle Sullivan wrote:
> I know, but with potentially serious issues even M$ issue patches for 
> older release...

Microsoft even has 114,000 employees [1]. There are billions of paying
customers, so Microsoft has staff and money to test and backport patches
to unsupported releases. 


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft



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