Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 13:48:34 +0100 (MET) From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl> To: gnat@frii.com Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.7 requires a rebuild of /usr/local binaries? Message-ID: <199703011248.NAA18698@gvr.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <199702211734.KAA03840@elara.frii.com> from "gnat@frii.com" at "Feb 21, 97 10:34:25 am"
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gnat@frii.com wrote: > I've just installed 2.1.7 (upgrading from 2.1.5) on my own machine, > prior to upgrading all our servers. The advisory re: the setlocale > bug said to rebuild all statically linked binaries and probably all > dynamically linked ones too. > > Going to the 2.1.7-RELEASE/packages directory, however, I see it's > just a link to the 2.1.6 packages directory. Does this mean that I > don't have to rebuild all my binaries after all? Indeed. A scan through all ports revealed apparently no suid binaries taht are statically linked. The only problems would arise with these kind of binaries. -Guido
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