Should I write bug report?

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Wed Sep 28 05:37:17 PDT 2005


Tobias Mohrlüder wrote:
> I've experienced a bug that causes a reboot under FreeBSD 5.4 and I
> wonder if I should write an 'open' bug report or a 'secret' mail to one
> of the FreeBSD developers. This bug doesn't seem to be hardware-related
> and is easily reproducible by a normal user (with no special
> privileges), so the latter is perhaps the better option.

Please send the details to the FreeBSD security team at
<secteam at freebsd.org>.  We don't consider local denial of
service problems (which is what this sounds like) to be
security issues, but we always like to investigate them
to make sure that there isn't anything more serious.

Colin Percival
FreeBSD Security Officer


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