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From: fw at deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)
Subject: Operating Systems Security, "Microsoft Security, baby steps"

Todd Burroughs wrote:

> I know that other major software companies use OpenSSL in their products;
> the "free/open source" software community responds very quickly, much
> faster than any commercial vendor (I noticed that Cisco released
> a patch).  This is proof, same day fix vs. fix in a few months.

openssl (0.9.6c-2.woody.5) stable-security; urgency=high

  * Non-maintainer upload by the Security Team
  * Apply upstream patch to fix NULL pointer dereference in
    do_change_cipher_spec (CAN-2004-0079)

 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@...ian.org>  Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:16:45 -0800

This can hardly be considered a "same day fix".

We don't even know how many weeks this bug was in circulation in the
vendor community before that date.

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