full-disclosure - Re: Erronous post concerning Backtrack 5 R2 0day

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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:54:12 +0100
From: Benji <me@...ji.com>
To: Adam Behnke <adam@...osecinstitute.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Erronous post concerning Backtrack 5 R2 0day

in soviet russia, lesson teaches you. in west, no lesson learnt by anyone.

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Adam Behnke <adam@...osecinstitute.com> wrote:
> Yesterday I made a post concerning a 0day advisory in Backtrack 5 R2:
> http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Apr/123
>
> The posting was incorrect, the vulnerability was NOT in Backtrack but in
> wicd, no Backtrack contributed code is vulnerable. When we tweeted and
> emailed to mailing lists the notifications of this vulnerability, we
> incorrectly shortened the title and called it "Backtrack 5 R2 priv
> escalation 0day ", which is misleading and could lead people to believe the
> bug was actually in Backtrack. The bug has always resided in wicd and not in
> any Backtrack team written code. We apologize for the confusion to the
> Backtrack team and any other persons affected by this error. We feel the
> Backtrack distro is a great piece of software and wish muts and the rest of
> the team the best.
>
>
>
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