Re: [fw-wiz] Variations of firewall ruleset bypass via FTP

From: Darren Reed (darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au)
Date: 10/11/02 

From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
To: Mikael Olsson <mikael.olsson@clavister.com>
Date: Fri Oct 11 12:07:01 2002

In some email I received from Mikael Olsson, sie wrote:
[...]
> > I'm not in control of what version ships with NetBSD. SEP.

I suppose this is the inflamatory part :)

> I can't help but parsing all of this as "I don't care that previous
> versions were vulnerable. I don't care that NetBSD is shipping a
> vulnerable version. And I particularily don't give a flying f&ck
> that listing ipf as 'Not Vulnerable' means that there's no reason
> for distributors to rush out a new version. It's all Someone
> Else's (the users') Problem."

3.4.29 was in NetBSD-current on Sep 21.

Darren

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