Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:47:28 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Dave McKay <dave@mu.org> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports security advisories.. Message-ID: <20000320154728.G14789@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000320154614.A63670@elvis.mu.org>; from dave@mu.org on Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 03:46:14PM -0600 References: <20000320154614.A63670@elvis.mu.org>
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* Dave McKay <dave@mu.org> [000320 14:18] wrote: > Is it really necessary to post the ports security advisories? > The exploitable programs are not part of the FreeBSD OS, they > are third party software. I think the proper place for these > is the Bugtraq mailing list on securityfocus.com. Also to add > to the arguments, most of the advisories are not FreeBSD > specific. I don't agree, I monitor FreeBSD boxes almost exclusively and find that the recent additional advisories take less time to go through and since they are freebsd specific they help the average FreeBSD-joe upgrade with FreeBSD specific instructions. Also, considering the recent bugtraq postings about problems with FreeBSD ports when it was a 3rd party application... I think that it's a wise PR move. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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