Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 16:37:27 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "No@SPAM@mgEDV.net" <nospam@mgedv.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upcoming release 6.1: old version of some core components Message-ID: <20060411203727.GA90177@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <001301c65d7f$0b9dab70$dededede@avalon.lan> References: <443BAE40.9050704@dial.pipex.com> <001301c65d7f$0b9dab70$dededede@avalon.lan>
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--nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 05:46:06PM +0200, No@SPAM@mgEDV.net wrote: > =20 > > I can't answer you main question, but I would say that you can bet your= =20 > >shirt on the fact that there will be no known security issues in the=20 > > older packages. >=20 > > At least for openssl and openssh you can get latest versions through th= e=20 > > ports. Not an option for everything -- I see no zlib for example and I= =20 > > don't believe there's a standard cvs port either. >=20 > as for zlib i definitely know, that there are 2 security flaws, which can > lead to problems when invalid compressed data is feeded. Already fixed as soon as they were published. Are there other reasons to upgrade? > my problem also is not the installation of ports/packages/custom compiles, > it's more that the operating system components itself are linked against > these older libraries an therefore will contain bugs, which may have been > already solved. The other side of this is that newer versions are often incompatible (OpenSSL, I'm looking at you), which rules out upgrading the version in a FreeBSD-STABLE branch since it ruins binary compatibility. Kris --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEPBOHWry0BWjoQKURAhwIAKDxEdTMNOixtpSzXFi4NCNbCorAHgCgqRrL x5uW8S0KTP/wrWugbTQQy90= =7g/U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j--
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