Did anyone else get a glut of old security/errata notices today??

From: Paul Mather <paul_at_gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2022 16:50:43 UTC
Today I received a glut of ten or so security/errata notices, some of which date back as far as 9th August:


> On Aug 9, 2022, at 6:19 PM, FreeBSD Errata Notices <errata-notices@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
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> Hash: SHA512
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> FreeBSD-EN-22:19.pam_exec                                       Errata Notice
>                                                          The FreeBSD Project
> 
> Topic:          NULL pointer dereference in pam_exec(8)
> 
> Category:       core
> Module:         pam
> Announced:      2022-08-09
> Affects:        FreeBSD 13.0 and later
> Corrected:      2022-06-24 09:09:59 UTC (stable/13, 13.1-STABLE)
>                2022-08-09 20:01:22 UTC (releng/13.1, 13.1-RELEASE-p1)
>                2022-08-09 20:00:25 UTC (releng/13.0, 13.0-RELEASE-p12)
> 
> For general information regarding FreeBSD Errata Notices and Security
> Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security
> branches, and the following sections, please visit
> <URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/>.
> 
> I.   Background
> 
> pam_exec(8) is a pam(3) module for delegating PAM service functions to an
> external program.  When used for authentication, it can pass the user's
> authentication token to the external program.
[[ etc. ]]


Looking at the headers, the common point of delay is the mail hop from mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org -> mx1.freebsd.org.  The in the case of the above Errata Notice the mail languished on mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org from 9th August 2022 until 8th November 2022:

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It goes some way to explaining why I saw a reply to the FreeBSD-EN-22:25.tcp e-mail on freebsd-stable on 3rd November without having seen the original Errata Notice. :-)

I'm just wondering: did this happen to anyone else, or was I the only lucky Mail Delivery Powerball winner here? :-)

Cheers,

Paul.