Search: Home Bugtraq Vulnerabilities Mailing Lists Jobs Tools Beta Programs
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.

Submit Comment Mode:
Name:
Subject:
Message:
 
  Enter the characters that appear above
 
"Root problem" again 2006-01-24
Alexey Vesnin
Again and again.... Root, who can do everything, he is not a problem. Dumb sysadmin who have it's privileges it's a problem - not root user itself. You MUST have such user in system to do alot of job often violating common policies... Securelevels always were a question of taste, no more. System ker...

[ more ]  




 

Privacy Statement
Copyright 2009, SecurityFocus