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From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To: Pawel Biernacki <pawel.biernacki@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Proposal
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Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 19:53:10 +0200
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Pawel Biernacki <pawel.biernacki@gmail.com> writes:
> RedHat managed to provide the fix within 21 hours but aparently they
> knew very eraly about the issue.  FreeBSD Security Team didn't?  Why?
> You can _see_ the whole process on their bugzilla
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D1084875.

No you can't.  That ticket is just window dressing.  By the time it was
created, RedHat had known about the issue for at least a week, and
probably more.

DES
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