On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 09:46:14PM -0000, Dave McKay 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.
Just to add a point here, some of the problems noted in these advisories
*have* been FreeBSD specific, due to the way that a port has modified
the default install, or suchlike. So it's definitely up to us to point
this out.
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