Re: [squid-users] CRITICAL BUG was Re: [squid-users] squid bug

From: Robert Collins <robert.collins@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 21:02:55 +1000

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vladimir Ivaschenko" <hazard@francoudi.com>

>
>
> > I don't understand why you are calling this a security bug.
>
(sense 1)> It is not a security bug in sense of access security to one
selected
> server. I accept that in this sense I'm wrong.
>
(sense 2)> It is a denial of service which directly threatens business,
therefore it
> is related to the security of business.

Thank you. In that context it makes more sense. Can I suggest that most
(nearly all) readers of your email will have taken it to mean sense 1,
and missed sense 2.

It is a D.O.S. bug, and IMO referring to it as such will imply the sense
2 in which you used security.

Rob
Received on Sun Sep 23 2001 - 05:01:58 MDT

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