From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 11 17:20:47 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18AE7106566B; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:20:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E4A8FC0A; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:20:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-228-22.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.228.22]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73F0C1E29A; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:20:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id nBBHKitb001937; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:20:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:20:44 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <20091211182044.c311c2f1.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20091211154950.GA6418@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20091210144141.GB834@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091210095122.a164bf95.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <11167f520912102342y349ebf03tccf886da0ecf53e9@mail.gmail.com> <20091211093023.009125d9.freebsd@edvax.de> <4B2207A6.7070204@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20091211154950.GA6418@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:33:43 +0000 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Polytropon , Bill, Moran , "Sam Fourman Jr." , Anton Shterenlikht , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:20:47 -0000 On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:49:50 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:49:42AM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > Polytropon wrote: > > > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:42:36 -0600, "Sam Fourman Jr." > > > wrote: > > >> I have tried looking around and OpenBSD appears to be the undisputed > > >> #1 track record in terms of security and FreeBSD is #2 (I didn't count > > >> dragonflyBSD) > > > > > > VMS would be #0, then? :-) > > > > I dunno. Haven't seen many MS-DOS exploits recently either... > > Chuckle Chuckle Chuckle. > I haven't either. > Don't see much MS-DOS network activity either... Lemme check... C:\>ne2000 -w 0x65 0xC 0x300 C:\>doslynx :b echo Looking for Sybille... goto b Ah, there it was! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...