From owner-freebsd-security Thu Aug 8 9:53:14 2002 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 608B537B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:53:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from radix.cryptio.net (radix.cryptio.net [199.181.107.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B45343E3B for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:53:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from emechler@radix.cryptio.net) Received: from radix.cryptio.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by radix.cryptio.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g78Gr2k6008752 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:53:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from emechler@radix.cryptio.net) Received: (from emechler@localhost) by radix.cryptio.net (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g78Gr2a8008751; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:53:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:53:02 -0700 From: Erick Mechler To: Ralph Huntington Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: security upgrade question Message-ID: <20020808165302.GM343@techometer.net> References: <20020808123953.X75214-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020808123953.X75214-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 :: What's not clear to me is: Are the security patches included in RELENG_4 :: to use for earlier 4.x boxes? In other words, are the libc problem and the :: openssl problem and the bind problem and whatever else problem has been :: advised about recently taken care of in RELENG_4 ?? RELENG_4 is the main branch for the FreeBSD 4.x series (-STABLE). Patches into the RELENG_4_4, RELENG_4_5, RELENG_4_6 branch, etc, are, by definition, a part of the main -STABLE branch, RELENG_4. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/cvs-tags.html for more information about the various CVS tags in use. Cheers - Erick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message