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Date:      Wed, 1 Nov 2000 17:42:26 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        Mitch Collinsworth <mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-00:62.top
Message-ID:  <20001101174226.A22706@citusc17.usc.edu>
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
References:  <20001101225954.E5B2C37B479@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10011011833020.11146-100000@khitomer.msc.cornell.edu> <20001101153940.A25149@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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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

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