[linux-security] Re: [RHSA-1999:030-01] Buffer overflow in cron daemon

[Olaf Kirch <okir monad swb de>]

On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 07:24:42PM -0600, Shaun Hedges wrote:
> I wonder, if this was discovered by another source such as Debian why
> haven't they made it public?

Things like that happen. It's happened to every vendor before.
I don't say that I'm happy with it, but if you lose sleep about it all
you get is feeling quite tired the next day.

Maybe it's not a widely known fact, but in general Linux vendors do
cooperate on security issues. We're sharing security information with
one another.

Olaf
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