reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug
in FreeBSD
Mikel King
mikel.king at olivent.com
Mon Sep 14 21:22:03 UTC 2009
On Sep 14, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Dan Goodin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Dan Goodin, a reporter at technology news website The Register.
> Security
> researcher Przemyslaw Frasunek says versions 6.x through 6.4 of
> FreeBSD
> has a security bug. He says he notified the FreeBSD Foundation on
> August
> 29 and never got a response. We'll be writing a brief article about
> this. Please let me know ASAP if someone cares to comment.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Dan Goodin
> 415-495-5411
Hasn't 6.x been End Of Lifed? I mean considering that 8.0 is expected
to be released either later this month or early next, and 6.x will be
officially retired at that time, is it possible that this was
overlooked? Personally I don't think it's ever good to overlook
security, especially in the case of a root exploit.
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.4R/announce.html
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