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Date:      Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:31:16 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Christopher Schulte <christopher@schulte.org>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-01:40.fts
Message-ID:  <20010606093116.C15460@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010605135437.0278eeb0@pop.schulte.org>; from christopher@schulte.org on Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:02:45PM -0500
References:  <200106051808.f55I8ik15444@freefall.freebsd.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20010605135437.0278eeb0@pop.schulte.org>

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On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:02:45PM -0500, Christopher Schulte wrote:
> At 11:08 AM 6/5/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >This patch has been verified to apply to FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE and
> >4.2-RELEASE; it may or may not apply to older, unsupported versions of
> >FreeBSD.
>=20
> Can someone comment on the impact of applying this patch to a 4.2-STABLE=
=20
> environment?  One might assume since 4.2-S falls between 4.2-R and 4.3-R,=
=20
> it would work?

Not necessarily; we only support releases because it's too hard to
make patches for every possible intermediate version.  It turns out in
this case the patch didn't even apply to 4.2-REL (needed a minor
tweak) although I thought I tested it.

Kris

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