Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 09:20:21 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: charlespeters@tecpro.com (Charles A. Peters) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5 August 1996 - Server Installation Message-ID: <19970517092021.DV14583@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199705150340.XAA20538@ais.ais-gwd.com>; from Charles A. Peters on May 14, 1997 23:43:41 %2B0000 References: <199705150340.XAA20538@ais.ais-gwd.com>
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As Charles A. Peters wrote: > I will be setting up a web / ftp / mail server, and I am planning to > use FreeBSD 2.1.5. I am wondering how stable this version is and if > there are any special problems that I may encounter. FreeBSD 2.1.x with x <= 6 has a serious security vulnerability. It is assumed that it's only exploitable by local users (thus might not be a problem when installing a server), but i would be careful. Also, version 2.1.7.1 has a number of other bugfixes. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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