FLAME - security advisories on the 23rd ? uncool idea is uncool

[Mike Tancsa]

On 12/23/2011 11:07 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
> Hey up list,
> Look, just a rant here.
> Who in *HELL* thought it would be a cool idea to release no less than
> FOUR security advisories today ?


The Security Officer explained it was because one of them was being
actively exploited.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security-notifications/2011-December/000165.html


Also, the chroot issue has been public for some time along with sample
exploits. Same with BIND which was fixed some time ago.  Judgment call,
and I think they made the right call at least from my perspective.

	---Mike


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