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Date:      Mon, 10 Feb 1997 20:00:07 -0800 (PST)
From:      Mike Pritchard <mpp>
To:        imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Cc:        marcs@znep.com, tqbf@enteract.com, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Don't fulminate, be productive
Message-ID:  <199702110400.UAA09848@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <E0vu34M-0005Rv-00@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Feb 10, 97 02:15:22 pm

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Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> In message <Pine.BSF.3.95.970210021858.11077f-100000@alive.ampr.ab.ca> Marc Slemko writes:
> : 90% of security holes are easy to find in stuff like FreeBSD right now.
> : When the obvious ones get fixed, it will be more like 90% being hard to
> : find.
> 
> I'd wager that about 95% of the security problems in FreeBSD could
> solved by going over the OpenBSD cvs logs carefully  and applying
> those patches.  Theo and co have been very careful in their audits of
> their programs.
> 
> Warner

As a warning to others.  I basically blindly committed some
security fixes to calendar from OpenBSD without much testing
and found out that they didn't work as expected.

Your milage may vary.
-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp@FreeBSD.org
"Go that way.  Really fast.  If something gets in your way, turn"



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