From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 11 16:18:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-132.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F31B337B403 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:18:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 16DB666D72; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:18:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:18:13 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Martin McCormick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Nomenclature Message-ID: <20010711161813.F90157@xor.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DO5DiztRLs659m5i" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:18:21PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --DO5DiztRLs659m5i Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:18:21PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > Is FreeBSD-4.3 known by any other nomenclature? I am > having a discussion with someone who says that it has all kinds of > security vulnerabilities besides the obvious ones that are > created by people who operate their systems in a dangerous > manner. This person sent me this long list of vulnerabilities, > some of which mention OpenBSD2.x or some other version of OpenBSD > that isn't anywhere close to 4.3. >=20 > I frankly haven't heard anything regarding > vulnerabilities that mention FreeBSD-4.3 or even OpenBSD-4.3, > assuming that is the same OS. There are one or two known problems with 4.3-RELEASE which are documented in the advisories on http://www.freebsd.org/security, however it sounds like your friend is either trying to scare you away from FreeBSD for their own purposes, or doesn't understand what they're talking about. Kris --DO5DiztRLs659m5i Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7TN60Wry0BWjoQKURAuBUAKCmio/vyqO4PDHoK2VUaCBZqE0PdwCgoeOt muXtz9XjWLFFkL/T4GbNMKE= =7I6M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DO5DiztRLs659m5i-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message