Re: Proposal

2014-04-09 Thread Joe Holden
On 09/04/2014 16:17, Walter Hop wrote: In my opinion this issue couldn't have been handled any better considering what it takes to do the job properly, congrats to the security team from me. -Kimmo Please don’t frame this as criticism of the security people, that’s not fair. Of course we all

Re: Proposal

2014-04-09 Thread Joe Holden
The problem here is that a workaround wasn't communicated and I suspect a very small number of religous users actually sub to security@ - also bare in mmind that the website wasn't updated until a number of hours after, including rss which I suspect most people use. I am not trying to undermin

Re: Proposal

2014-04-14 Thread Joe Holden
On 10/04/2014 11:47, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Joe Holden writes: IME issues like this need to be patched first, tested later [...] If we'd done that and screwed up, you'd be on the barricades demanding our heads. DES Given the nature of the patch, and it being experimental

Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-15:02.kmem

2015-01-28 Thread Joe Holden
Really, how many SCTP users are there om the wild... maybe one? It shouldn't be in GENERIC at the very least! On 28/01/2015 21:19, Mark Andrews wrote: In message <20150128194011.2175b...@hub.freebsd.org>, "Roger Marquis" writes: If SCTP is NOT compiled in the kernel, are you still vulnerable