Przemyslaw Frasunek wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> Przemyslaw should email security-officer with any details he thinks are >> relevant. Then the security team will make sure to fix the bug for all >> affected releases of FreeBSD, release a patch with the fix, issue an >> advisory through the usual channels, and post the details online at our >> security information web pages at <http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/>. > > I see that I received a lot of criticism after disclosing 6.4 > vulnerability. Please read some facts: > > I send few mails: on 29th Aug to security team, on 2nd Sep and 11th Sep > directly to security officer. None of them were responded. I haven't > filled any PRs, because it would disclose details of vulnerability to the > public and allow blackhats to exploit it. > > I won't publish anything more than video, before official security > advisory. The exploit is private to me and it won't be given to the > "community". > > Michael Powell wrote: >> Quoted from ~freebsd.security.general: >> "The bug was fixed in 6.1-STABLE, just before release of 6.2-RELEASE, but >> was not recognized as security vulnerability." > > This is another bug. The former one affected only 6.1, this one affects > everything up to 6.4-STABLE. >
Please allow me to express my appreciation for your efforts in this matter. Your work will only improve FreeBSD and I would like to thank you kindly for that. I apologize if any, or all, of my comments appeared critical of your work. I was trying to express criticism of the writer whose only imperative was to generate a sensationalist headline. -Mike _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
