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Date:      Fri, 27 Feb 1998 21:18:23 +0100 (MET)
From:      Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
To:        eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund)
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, dima@best.net, cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca, tqbf@secnet.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, security-officer@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OpenBSD Security Advisory: mmap() Problem
Message-ID:  <199802272018.VAA06092@gvr.gvr.org>
In-Reply-To: <19980227093258.00824@follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "Feb 27, 98 09:32:58 am"

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Eivind Eklund wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 11:11:05PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > > Also, it does indeed breaks Xaccel. Holwever, it's really easy to fix it
> > > using gdb.  (it's will violate it's license, though :-)
> > 
> > Yeesh!  I can only imagine the tech support that would generate. :-(
> 
> It's a major bug on their part.  I can't see much we can do about it,
> beyond notifying them that the change will take place, and helping
> them distribute announcements.
> 
> We _can't_ let this bug stay in, IMO.

I agree completely here. Did anyone already contact XIG?

-Guido

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