Re: FreeBSD 3.3's seyon vulnerability

[billf () CHC-CHIMES COM (Bill Fumerola)]

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Brock Tellier wrote:

> In preparing for this advisory release, I checked for "seyon" vulnerabilities
> in the bugtraq archives.  I found that the exploit I had developed had already
> been discussed in May 1997.  However, this does not change the fact that the
> current version of FreeBSD still ships a vulnerable version with vulnerable
> privs.  I believe this is still worth noting.  Here is my advisory as it was
> to be published before the previous vulnerability came to light.

<not speaking on behalf of FreeBSD>

It would be nice if you:

(a) filed a pr using send-pr(1) or the web interface
or
(b) contacted security-officer () FreeBSD org
or
(c) sent mail to the maintainer of the port

to provide some sort of fighting chance before mailing Bugtraq. I'm
a huge bugtraq/full-disclosure advocate, but I also believe in giving
a group a fighting chance to fix it first.

Thanks,

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