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Date:      Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:30:21 -0600
From:      D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        twig les <twigles@yahoo.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: another TCPDump update question
Message-ID:  <20030324093021.A8296@sheol.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20030324151410.GE94153@madman.celabo.org>; from nectar@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:14:10AM -0600
References:  <20030311231326.82217.qmail@web10107.mail.yahoo.com> <20030324151410.GE94153@madman.celabo.org>

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On Mar 24, at 09:14 AM, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 03:13:26PM -0800, twig les wrote:
> > The reason this ties into freebsd-security and not -questions is
> > I'm still waiting for official word on a patch/upgrade procedure
> > from the team.  Am I being impatient here or did I miss
> > something?  I checked back over security-notifications and saw
> > nothing.
> 
> You didn't miss anything.  There won't be a security advisory for this
> issue.

No?

Without insulting anyone, may I ask why not? tcpdump is included in the
base/standard OS, afterall, and so is libpcap, which appears to be related.

IIRC, there have been SAs for DOS vulnerabilities before. What or where
is the line for what is or is not eligible for a SA?

> Cheers,
> Jacques A. Vidrine <nectar@celabo.org>          http://www.celabo.org/

Thanks,
Dave

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