How not to respond to a security advisory

How not to respond to a security advisory
Jason Miller, 2006-01-18

A recently announced weakness in the BSD securelevel system isn't going to be fixed in OpenBSD. While securelevel may have problems, the vendor's security response is unacceptable and doesn't fit with their stated goals.

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How not to respond to a security advisory 2006-01-19
Miles (3 replies)

Re: How not to respond to a security advisory 2006-01-19
Dwight

Re: How not to respond to a security advisory 2006-01-19
Anonymous

Secure levels as a control is too coarse grained 2006-01-19
Anonymous (1 replies)

Re: Secure levels as a control is too coarse grained 2006-01-21
Anonymous

How not to respond to a security advisory 2006-01-19
Anonymous

How not to respond to a security advisory 2006-01-19
Anonymous (1 replies)

Re: How not to respond to a security advisory 2006-01-25
Matthew Murphy

How not to respond to a security advisory 2006-01-19
DS

Interesting how these advisories always paint the flaw in the darkest shades possible.

Securelevels provide far more than the immutable and other flag capabilities for files. Do read the manual page:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=securelevel&sek
tion=7&apropos=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386

So doing away with securelevels because of a "break" in this one component makes no sense.

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How not to respond to a security advisory 2006-01-19
Anonymous (2 replies)

Re: How not to respond to a security advisory 2006-01-19
Kelly Martin

Re: How not to respond to a security advisory 2006-01-21
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How not to respond to a security advisory 2006-01-19
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Linux security contact 2006-01-19
Anonymous

Theo being theo... 2006-01-19
Anonymous (2 replies)

Re: Theo being theo... 2006-01-20
Anonymous

Re: Theo being theo...(Theo is best!) :) 2006-01-23
LinuxUser

What total nonsense. 2006-01-19
Anonymous

How not to respond to a security advisory 2006-01-20
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Re: How not to respond to a security advisory 2006-01-26
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How not to respond to a security advisory 2006-01-20
Fred Cohen