reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

Lane Holcombe lane at joeandlane.com
Tue Sep 15 15:11:28 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 10:49 -0400, Jerry wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:18:26 -0400
> Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:
> 
> > Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions at mailing.thruhere.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Monday 14 September 2009 23:46:42 David Kelly wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:13:54PM -0400, illoai at gmail.com wrote:

> snip

> I usually discover security problems with updates I receive from
> <http://www.us-cert.gov/>. Aren't FreeBSD security problems reported to
> their site? If not, why? IMHO, keeping users in the dark to known
> security problems is not a serviceable protocol.

Jerry, 

point your aggregator to http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories.rdf

There have only been 12 security advisories put out this year, as far as
I can tell.  Nothing about this one, though.

lane



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