reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

[Jason]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:21:48PM -0400, Mikel King thus spake:
>
>On Sep 14, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Dan Goodin wrote:
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>> 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

Looks like the EOL will be: November 30, 2010

http://security.freebsd.org/

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