On 12/23/2011 11:07 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > Hey up list, > Look, just a rant here. > Who in *HELL* thought it would be a cool idea to release no less than > FOUR security advisories today ?
The Security Officer explained it was because one of them was being actively exploited. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security-notifications/2011-December/000165.html Also, the chroot issue has been public for some time along with sample exploits. Same with BIND which was fixed some time ago. Judgment call, and I think they made the right call at least from my perspective. ---Mike -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
