From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 27 19:06:42 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 70DD951D for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:06:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.jr-hosting.nl (mail.jr-hosting.nl [78.47.69.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2914019CE for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:06:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:d701::39be:975f:8891:ab39] (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:d701:0:39be:975f:8891:ab39]) by mail.jr-hosting.nl (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 645143F467; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:06:40 +0100 (CET) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_C94C5BA3-2604-4F94-AFF7-627C1E07AF56"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.2 \(1874\)) Subject: Re: how to read security advisories From: Remko Lodder In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:06:39 +0100 Message-Id: <8C3865D6-0291-4756-B9EA-F3DB445DD9CC@FreeBSD.org> References: <44fvn64qaf.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <444n3kvhsy.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> To: Warren Block X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1874) Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Joe X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:06:42 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_C94C5BA3-2604-4F94-AFF7-627C1E07AF56 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 On 27 Feb 2014, at 19:09, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Joe wrote: >=20 >> Builds which do not have the -p suffix in their release string do not = have a patch level. >>=20 >> Or maybe it's more accurate to say "If your release string does not = contain the -p suffix, your build is not from the patched security = branch"?=20 > ?? >> I'm sure you know better than I how to state this in a technically = correct way. >=20 > "Release strings without a -p suffix have not been patched.=94 Have not yet received a Security Advisory and/or Errata Notice. A non -p system is fully patched and ready to go when it had been = released, though afterwards flaws and problems can be found that were not known yet, needing it to be updated, to be = able to see that, the -pX comes into play. It=92s safe to assume that only -pX systems are either because of a SA = or an EN. :) Remko > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 /"\ Best regards, | remko@FreeBSD.org \ / Remko Lodder | remko@EFnet X http://www.evilcoder.org/ | / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --Apple-Mail=_C94C5BA3-2604-4F94-AFF7-627C1E07AF56 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTD4y/AAoJEKjD27JZ84ywVtoP/iMCmOhTMWHO3A53NP6gI8Az WJ0LTRRQfsR7dkXYs5CvXhwd70zFqWo03Wuk9YXiLotaU155V92mTShq6J7WWOmB znLu2CmuWxbAItJaI7/tokQlfowIEIhhjDki+V6r8qFgFVYFrSpTvbeCGhiYQOSg zt9ogclq3HfxoCzrXQixgne3w5pd9phve1SQsLS0NgujN44afCFmE6iHemPLELVH BzG+kr3OsJl1p/H4CiIki8YNWRzqSoWqqUnO/YBQ+TAbUztpuQa5qec8o13Z1SDb BRugUPuE8pvXccZFi9lobpa8jD4l5YdhdGChX/9bk8kmUoAFyGpI8UpDYkO2cvdh zAQZnJ4sAntwZrgQBRZMaKwJjN99MZFZqZqx0jUkepU10qNRBp9Ns1oGh2dJEqsI RShG0FwWh8nAQw1NSI7wh2qAHopOipcOhI9DbfNEieBBVz5Ezxf7eYc+hYnLNXDS 1ggW3MkXwVLpcQlF3sJc77Z0ffKgymfz2VsXc+EMKi4cpg5XSdIilqHY5xG8Mxr7 xbaaLBTl2fa0Cz9U0vmnoUQOb8thLAphDJGBCASr9h7M4KCYF/R4udLT7TY/l+wK ZWQlYkBNLCjF8z3AoJbRQYM8YTPX5aBqVSO91dPKa65TNJWqAv2ME9qMlw43P5kv 475aq+3/RAgJuSdB+Yo9 =aaUT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_C94C5BA3-2604-4F94-AFF7-627C1E07AF56--