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Message-ID: <20040318093136.GA2618@deneb.enyo.de>
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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