Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 15:13:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Hartley <mark@work.drapple.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, "H. Wade Minter" <minter@lunenburg.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:28.resolv Message-ID: <XFMail.020626151359.mark@work.drapple.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020626162041.16603B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On 26-Jun-02 Robert Watson wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, H. Wade Minter wrote: > >> So am I correct in assuming that this fix requires a complete system >> rebuild (make buildworld) as opposed to just rebuilding a particular >> module? > > You will catch most applications simply by rebuilding libc and > reinstalling. Unfortunately, some applications are statically linked, and > they must be individually relinked against the new libc and reinstalled. > Since there are a moderate number of statically linked applications that > use DNS, the easiest directions simply involved rebuilding the entire > system (especially given modern system speed). Once the binary updates > are available, there will be a list of the affect binaries if you want to > take a more selective approach. > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects > robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories > > Are there other common applications (not rebuilt by the world) that many of us are likely to be running which are going to need to be rebuilt (i.e. Apache, pop3 servers, db servers, etc)? I'm not really sure how to even know if an application would be statically linked against libc. Maybe someone with a clue could post some instructions on how to check out if an app is statically linked against libc, then we could test our own apps and rebuild as needed. Anyone have an easy way that we can tell? Thanks. Mark. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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