From owner-freebsd-security Wed Mar 5 10:53:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23B4B37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:53:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96BE743F3F for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:53:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA04237; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:52:19 -0700 (MST) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook renders your system susceptible to Internet worms. Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20030305115030.0499f7b0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 11:52:14 -0700 To: Kris Kennaway From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Does the patching procedure work? Cc: Igor Roshchin , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20030305183028.GC701@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030305110258.029297f0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030305101206.04858990@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030305110258.029297f0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:30 AM 3/5/2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: >Each branch is supported by the Security Officer for a limited time >only, typically through 12 months after the release. In that case, the published binary patches and diffs should go back farther than 4.6-RELEASE. I know large numbers of admins with 4.4 and 4.5 machines. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message