From owner-freebsd-security Wed Nov 1 17:40:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from citusc17.usc.edu (citusc17.usc.edu [128.125.38.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B41D37B4C5 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 17:40:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kris@localhost) by citusc17.usc.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eA21gV822744; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 17:42:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 17:42:26 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Brooks Davis Cc: Mitch Collinsworth , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-00:62.top Message-ID: <20001101174226.A22706@citusc17.usc.edu> References: <20001101225954.E5B2C37B479@hub.freebsd.org> <20001101153940.A25149@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001101153940.A25149@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 03:39:40PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 03:39:40PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > All released versions of FreeBSD prior to the correction date > > > including 4.0, 4.1, 4.1.1 and 3.5.1 are vulnerable to this problem, > > > but it was fixed in the 4.1.1-STABLE branch prior to the release of > > > FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE. > >=20 > > There's a 4.2-RELEASE ?? >=20 > It's in beta. I think the idea here was to indicate the first release > which does not have this bug. I think that's a good policy (especialy > close to a release date) since it lets people who only run releases know > which one to run. Yep. Even though saying "it's fixed in 4.1.1-STABLE" implies that it will be fixed in 4.2-RELEASE since 4.2 > 4.1.1, might as well make it explicit for people who don't really understand how RELENG_4 works. Kris --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjoAxoIACgkQWry0BWjoQKXAJACeJiVdAvBMTbH6S0Wc2BfLazup +8MAn35GdjL7zJW50B5yIBLeN0TSmEbp =4phc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message