Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 16:30:36 -0500 (CDT) From: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, "Chris D . Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftpd bug in FreeBSD through at least 3.4 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10010021621510.43354-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net> In-Reply-To: <21970.970515180@critter>
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On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.10010021410490.43354-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net>, Jam > es Wyatt writes: > >On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message <4.3.2.7.2.20001002124607.00df8150@localhost>, Brett Glass writes: > >> >At 12:35 PM 10/2/2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> > > >> >>3.4 is a dead branch, 2.x even more so. > >> > > >> >People are still running it 3.x, though. LOTS of people. > >> > >> Doesn't change the fact that it's a dead branch. > > > >Doesn't change the fact that "LOTS of people" are still running it... > >Geez, what a curt, rude, throw-your-hands-up answer. > > > >Are you saying that if we found a terrible bug (not this easy one) > >somewhere critical in 3.5.%d, we'd all have to immediatly upgrade? - Jy@ > > Yes, I am saying that. Then why is Walnut Creek CDROM still selling it as a current product? I don't see Fry's selling older copies of Windows 3.* or DOS 3/4/5, do you? I know there are two forks of FreeBSD - active and stable. That's great for making "leading-edge v.s. state-of-the-art" decisions, but even the palace at Redmond will give me free fixes for Win95 security bugs. (Some think of it as a quantity discount as bug counts go infinite, price goes to zero. (^_^) OS revisions are a fact of life, but since 4v0 was just released in April and took some time to get to 4v1 (never trust %d.0 releases), I would have expected a bit more support. Sometimes CVS isn't the answer - like the 2v2r8 release firewall one of my cheaper clients has. We are going to put a 4v1r1 box in place of it, but usually replacement is a pain. - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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