Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:24:23 -0800 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Security Bulletins and Related Updates Message-ID: <f051003a1b8bc340c3d56@[10.0.1.90]> In-Reply-To: <20020319000703.2B06BBA05@i8k.babbleon.org> References: <200203180844.g2I8iwb15941@freebsd.dk> <20020318165724.GA21743@jochem.dyndns.org> <20020319000703.2B06BBA05@i8k.babbleon.org>
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I am not sure this is the right place to bring this up, but I didn't see one that was more obvious. I recently received 2 security bulletins dealing with security issues in the releases. These last two did not include updates for 4.3-RELENG. The first one was a very simple patch that obviously was fine with the 4.3 sources. That was easily updated. This last one with zlib double-free is not as simple or obvious. The issue at hand is for those of us who use FreeBSD for production environments where down-time results in the loss of customers, having to update the OS 2 or 3 times a year is just not viable. I need to be able to keep the OS upgrades to one per year or fewer. Each of those is a severl hour down-time and really annoys my users. I can justify it once a year. The security patches generally only take a minute or so and that is noticed by only a couple users. I can get away with that more often. However, without the updates to the 4.3-RELENG I have no way to keep up to date with the security issues. Can the security fixes be done a bit farther back? -- -- Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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