Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:18:34 +0100 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-04:12.jailroute Message-ID: <6.1.0.6.1.20040608105255.02e78ba0@popserver.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <20040607210614.112DF33C75@dwp.des.no> References: <20040607210614.112DF33C75@dwp.des.no>
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At 22:06 07/06/2004, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote: >FreeBSD-SA-04:12.jailroute Security Advisory >Affects: All FreeBSD 4.x releases prior to 4.10-RELEASE As a few people have noted, this should read "FreeBSD 4.8 and 4.9"; this bug never existed in earlier versions of FreeBSD. That said, FreeBSD 4.7 and earlier are no longer officially supported, and it is highly recommended that people upgrade to a newer version, since there have been recent security advisories concerning issues to which earlier releases are still vulnerable. >V. Solution >Do one of the following: > >1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to 4.10-RELEASE, or to the RELENG_4_8 >or RELENG_4_9 security branch dated after the correction date. > >OR > >2) Patch your present system: or, as usual, 3) If you are running an affected release, you can use FreeBSD Update: # cd /usr/ports/security/freebsd-update && make all install # cp /usr/local/etc/freebsd-update.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/freebsd-update.conf # /usr/local/sbin/freebsd-update fetch # /usr/local/sbin/freebsd-update install For more details, see http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/ . Note that this is something I'm providing personally; it is in no way endorsed by the Security Officer or the Project as a whole. Colin Percival
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