From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jan 28 0: 3:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from straylight.ringlet.net (discworld.nanolink.com [217.75.135.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72B2037B404 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 00:03:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 14420 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Jan 2002 08:03:48 -0000 Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:03:48 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: D J Hawkey Jr Cc: security at FreeBSD Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Backported patches for SA-02:08 (exec) now available Message-ID: <20020128100347.A283@straylight.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: D J Hawkey Jr , security at FreeBSD References: <20020127141636.A2073@sheol.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020127141636.A2073@sheol.localdomain>; from hawkeyd@visi.com on Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 02:16:36PM -0600 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 Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 02:16:36PM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > Hello All. > > I'm pleased to announce that the patch for SA-02:08 (exec race condition) > has been backported to FreeBSD releases 4.1-REL, 4.1.1-REL, and 4.2-REL. > > They are now available at the FreeBSD Backports site: > http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/freebsd-backports.html > > I hope they help somebody, > Dave > > PS, Please don't flame me for inappropriate use of this mailing list. > I was told this is OK. It certainly is OK - and thanks for the backports! IMHO, your backports - at least those of the security fixes - would also be appropriate for -announce; I have no idea who approves posts to -announce, but it might be worth asking for opinions on this one.. G'luck, Peter -- I am jealous of the first word in this sentence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message