From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 3 05:56:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C953B16A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 05:56:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from chomsky.sohotech.ca (ottawa-hs-64-26-169-251.s-ip.magma.ca [64.26.169.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89F2643D1D for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 05:56:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ebudd@grokking.org) Received: from heinlein.sohotech.ca (heinlein.sohotech.ca [192.168.1.3]) (authenticated bits=0) by chomsky.sohotech.ca (8.12.9p1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i23DukL9059485 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 08:56:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ebudd@grokking.org) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 09:00:09 -0500 From: Ed Budd To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040303090009.4d09fbbd.ebudd@grokking.org> In-Reply-To: <20040303132914.GC11526@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20040303082443.5804a947.ebudd@grokking.org> <20040303132914.GC11526@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: latest security advisory and 5.1R X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 13:56:48 -0000 On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:29:14 +0000 Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:24:43AM -0500, Ed Budd wrote: > > > Can anyone confirm whether 5.1R is affected by yesterday's > > security advisory (FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp)? > > > > On the one hand it says that this affects "All FreeBSD releases" but > > on the other hand only lists STABLE, 5.2, 5.2.1, 4.9 and 4.8 under > > "corrected". Does this mean it IS affected but not yet fixed on > > those versions? > > As it says: all FreeBSD releases are affected. Fixes have been > released for all supported versions of the OS, and detailed in the > advisory. It's possible that those fixes will be back-ported to older > versions, but you can't afford to assume so. Besides, you read the > comments about "New Technology Releases" and "suitable for early > adopters only" when you installed 5.1-RELEASE didn't you? Now that > 5.2.1-RELEASE is out, you should probably upgrade. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks > Savill Way > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow > Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH > UK Thanks for the reply. I think what's confusing me here is that I assumed that 5.1R was still "officially supported" and every other advisory up to this one has been included, like last week's FreeBSD-SA-04:03.jail advisory, for example. So am I to assume then that as of this week 5.1R is no longer "officially supported"? EB