From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jul 11 12:27:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-132.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0525E37B407 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 12:27:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DD47866D72; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 12:27:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 12:27:32 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mike Tancsa Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root compromise fix for RELENG_3 ? Message-ID: <20010711122732.E87389@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <4.2.2.20010711075617.05777eb8@192.168.0.12> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="fWddYNRDgTk9wQGZ" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20010711075617.05777eb8@192.168.0.12>; from mike@sentex.net on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:59:31AM -0400 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 --fWddYNRDgTk9wQGZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:59:31AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: >=20 > I know its not officially supported anymore. But is there going to be a f= ix=20 > for SA-01:42 on the 3.x branch ? The situation wrt local security fixes in RELENG_3 is basically that it's up to individual committers to commit them; the security officer isn't going to be enforcing it given the documented existence of an unfixable local root hole in that branch. Kris --fWddYNRDgTk9wQGZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7TKijWry0BWjoQKURAthoAJ9inkZVBTZnpIsR8pKiuCVzQ5nm9QCeIngd nKgdMTYxzy/uGp+P/KsI+EI= =L/34 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fWddYNRDgTk9wQGZ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message