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Date:      Wed, 29 Oct 1997 23:16:08 +0100 (MET)
From:      Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To:        security-officer@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, first-teams@first.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-97:05.open
Message-ID:  <199710292216.XAA03735@bitbox.follo.net>
In-Reply-To: FreeBSD Security Officer's message of Wed, 29 Oct 1997 20:01:00 %2B0100 (MET)
References:  <199710291902.UAA05565@gvr.gvr.org>

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> =============================================================================
> FreeBSD-SA-97:05                                            Security Advisory
>                                                                 FreeBSD, Inc.
> 
> Topic:          security compromise via open()
> 
> Category:       core
> Module:         kern
> Announced:      1997-10-29
> Affects:        FreeBSD 2.1.*, FreeBSD 2.2.*,
> 		FreeBSD-stable and FreeBSD-current 
> Corrected:      FreeBSD-current as of 1997/10/23 (partly even on 1997/04/14)
> 		FreeBSD-stable as of 1997/10/24
> 		FreeBSD 2.1-stable as of 1997/10/29
> FreeBSD only:   yes

This is not correct.  It affected NetBSD and OpenBSD, too, and was
originally discovered by a NetBSD developer (and forwarded off the
NetBSD developers list to best-of-security by someone I'll have mercy
enough to leave nameless).

Eivind.




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