Re: Re: GAYER THAN AIDS ADVISORY #01: IE 5 remote code execution

[Dave Sherohman <esper () sherohman org>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:29:49AM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> Oh, give me a break. Some developer went, "Oh, hey, I'm not bounds
> checking there. Okay, fix that," and the changes filtered out into
> the release of IE. You don't release "security patches" except in
> response to publication of a serious vulnerability, and especially
> in response to a problem that's systemic. This is *a* buffer
> overflow. Do we expect even Sun or Apple to tell us about every
> buffer overflow they fix? Hell, do we expect Linux or NetBSD to do
> so?

Funny that you should ask that on the same day that I (and this list)
have received no fewer than four notices from Debian that they've
released new versions of various kernel packages to fix *a* local
root hole caused by not checking a function's return value.

So, yes, I do expect my Linux distributor to tell me about every
buffer overflow they fix - and they do, either with mail from the
debian-security list or with Changelogs included in the packages.

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