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Date:      Sat, 07 Apr 2001 03:19:48 -0500
From:      Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
To:        Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ntpd root exploit - advisory?
Message-ID:  <3ACECDA4.AC4B9BDD@math.missouri.edu>
References:  <3ACEBDB0.DD6555C8@quake.com.au>

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I speak with no knowledge, but my experience is that these
advisories always come out a few weeks after the problem has
been fixed.

Kal Torak wrote:
> 
> Just wondering why there has been no security advisory on the
> announce list about the ntpd root exploit and buffer overflow
> allowing for syslog DoS attack...
> 
> I noticed that a few fixes have been committed to stable for
> ntpd, but no advisory... Whats going on? Is it still not totally
> fixed yet?
> 

-- 
Stephen Montgomery-Smith
stephen@math.missouri.edu
http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen

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