From owner-freebsd-security Wed Mar 5 11:26:40 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 4AFF937B401; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:26:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.nectar.cc (gw.nectar.cc [208.42.49.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AF0B43FD7; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:26:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nectar@celabo.org) Received: from madman.celabo.org (madman.celabo.org [10.0.1.111]) by gw.nectar.cc (Postfix) with ESMTP id 259B038; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:26:36 -0600 (CST) Received: by madman.celabo.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 14EA178C43; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:26:36 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:26:36 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Brett Glass Cc: David Schultz , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Does the patching procedure work? Message-ID: <20030305192635.GA23113@madman.celabo.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Brett Glass , David Schultz , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.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> <4.3.2.7.2.20030305121248.02c5e720@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030305121248.02c5e720@localhost> X-Url: http://www.celabo.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i-ja.1 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 On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 12:17:25PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 12:09 PM 3/5/2003, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > >> 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. I see. I was referring to the security branches, of course. We don't and won't generate patch sets for no-longer-supported branches. Of course there are myriad ways that you can unerringly do so yourself for fixes that have been committed. I should also point out that in general, we do not support patching systems that have not also had all other previous patches applied first. > 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. I agree. That is why approximately 2 weeks ago, I changed the policy from `the last two releases' to 12 months. Kind of a quiet change really. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/www/en/security/security.sgml.diff?r1=1.124&r2=1.125 At that time, RELENG_4_5 was already `over' under both the old and new policy. Cheers, -- Jacques A. Vidrine http://www.celabo.org/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message