iDefense Security Advisory 10.10.06: FreeBSD ptrace PT_LWPINFO Denial of Service Vulnerability

[Harald Muehlboeck]

Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> writes:

>> "The policy of the FreeBSD Security Team is that local denial of service
>> bugs not be treated as security issues; it is possible that this problem
>> will be corrected in a future Erratum."
>
> If there was any potential for
> (a) privilege escalation,
> (b) disclosure of potentially sensitive information, or
> (c) denial of service by a non-authenticated attacker,
> we would have issued a security advisory.

I am missing this information on <http://www.freebsd.org/security/>.

The site does not say wich bugs are treated as security issue and
which are not. Perhaps these three points above can be added to the
website.