From owner-freebsd-security Wed Mar 5 11:17:38 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 5123C37B401; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:17:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1590143F75; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:17:34 -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 MAA04569; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:17:28 -0700 (MST) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook renders your system susceptible to Internet worms. Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20030305121248.02c5e720@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 12:17:25 -0700 To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Does the patching procedure work? Cc: David Schultz , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20030305190955.GA17065@madman.celabo.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030305100150.048518c0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030305052142.03f04200@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030305050739.03f078f0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030305052142.03f04200@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030305100150.048518c0@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 12:09 PM 3/5/2003, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: >If this machine had been kept up-to-date (i.e. was 4.5-RELEASE-p22 or >more recent, or had the previous sendmail bug patched), then the patch >would probably have worked out. It did have periodic patches as needed. >Lucky? Hrmpf, a system administrator has to be careful. Call it what you will. I suspect that it has slipped by others. >> What I have done on that machine is install the 4.6 binary, >> which seems to run just fine on 4.5 and even 4.4 (though >> you may need to add the misssing group). > >Cool. You may want to mention this in the advisory. >> Patches should be provided back to 4.4, IMHO. > >Um, in this case, they were provided all the way back to 3.x. Nope. The revised advisory published to -announce provided only one patch, at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/patches/SA-03:04/sendmail.patch and it failed to apply completely. No other patch was offered. There were replacement binaries for 5.0, 4.7, and 4.6, which does not go back a full year. There really should be support for each release for a year. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message