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> i do not know if netbsd is affected, but then they have other
> goals with their debian port, not primary security.
>
> one problem that was found is about the fd handling. I am not
> aware of any advisory either.
Do you mean problems found by Alexander Viro in Jun
OpenBSD appears to be more heavily audited though. Maybe it's just
appearance. You may have seen in the Debian Weekly News that I'm working
on a rough audit project and in such I would like to say that security
must include a heavy code audit.
i think 'appears' is a great word her
* Michael Goetze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021030 10:11]:
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> > The value of an OpenBSD port extends beyond the potential security
> > benefits. Making packages portable across kernels is very valuable. I
> > would like to be able to go into any OS and run a Debian system.
>
> The point is that, as fa
> The value of an OpenBSD port extends beyond the potential security
> benefits. Making packages portable across kernels is very valuable. I
> would like to be able to go into any OS and run a Debian system.
The point is that, as far as I understood things, Andreas' Debian/OpenBSD was
not about p
Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> My point was that there was not so much to win securitywise with this port.
OpenBSD appears to be more heavily audited though. Maybe it's just
appearance. You may have seen in the Debian Weekly News that I'm working
on a rough audit project and in such
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> The kernel code seems to have severe race conditions and the
> userspace seems to be bitten by a compareable number of security
> incidents as e.g. a stabel debian with a correspo
* Andreas Schuldei ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021022 23:58]:
> There are several indications that openbsd's security is more or
> less up to the level what can be achived with todays debian
> gnu/linux.
>
> The kernel code seems to have severe race conditions and the
> userspace seems to be bitten by a
There are several indications that openbsd's security is more or
less up to the level what can be achived with todays debian
gnu/linux.
The kernel code seems to have severe race conditions and the
userspace seems to be bitten by a compareable number of security
incidents as e.g. a stabel debian wi
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