From owner-freebsd-www Sat Dec 21 09:47:49 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA17978 for www-outgoing; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 09:47:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from yoss.canweb.net (root@yoss.canweb.net [207.112.44.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA17972 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 09:47:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from yossman@localhost) by yoss.canweb.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA22178; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 12:46:56 -0500 Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 12:46:56 -0500 (EST) From: yossman To: www@freebsd.org Subject: a general question. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk you guys should maybe have a part to your FreeBSD pages which details the various security holes and bugs, like the ones CERT warns us about. A collection of this information, complete with links to source code and/or binary replacements for the affected application, would be extremely valuable. i would love to hop on your site, go to the 'security issues' page and get the latest pieces of sourcecode that would fix my machine's vulnerability to the Ping Of Death, for instance. i've been looking this morning while i do my job but so far i'm coming up empty as to what exactly i should do to protect my system. the information FreeBSD added to CERT's warning wasn't terribly helpful either: ----- Free BSD, Inc. ============== We have fixed the problem in 2.1.6 and -current. ----- heh, wonderful. what about us 2.1.0R junkies? ;-> anyway it's a suggestion, and perhaps you could help point me in the right direction as to what i can do to protect myself .. i'm going to check out CERT's site now. thanks, yossman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yossarian Holmberg (yossman) yossman@canweb.net System Administrator, National On-Line http://www.canweb.net/ '... and if i die, before i learn to speak, can money pay for all the days i've lived awake but half asleep?' -- Primitive Radio Gods, "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand"