Bind in FreeBSD, security advisories

[David Magda]

On Wed, July 31, 2013 02:55, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:

> I'm also more than a little surprised about people dragging out
> sendmail as a shining example of *good* (bug-free?) software. Does
> nobody remember any history here? It wasn't *that* many years ago
> that we seemed to have "sendmail-bug-of-the-day"...

Seven years ago and ten years ago:

http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:17.sendmail.asc
http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:13.sendmail.asc
http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:13.sendmail.asc
http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:11.sendmail.asc
http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:07.sendmail.asc
http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:04.sendmail.asc

In the same time period, BIND has had eighteen advisories. OpenSSL has had
fourteen.