From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 05:04:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2444E16A4BF for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 05:04:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.celabo.org (gw.celabo.org [208.42.49.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7849743F3F for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 05:04:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@celabo.org) Received: from madman.celabo.org (madman.celabo.org [10.0.1.111]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "madman.celabo.org", Issuer "celabo.org CA" (verified OK)) by gw.celabo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22EB354846; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 07:04:43 -0500 (CDT) Received: by madman.celabo.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B6F226D476; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 07:04:42 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 07:04:42 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: D J Hawkey Jr Message-ID: <20031006120442.GA77299@madman.celabo.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , D J Hawkey Jr , peter.lai@uconn.edu, security at FreeBSD References: <200310032249.h93MnXS8047857@freefall.freebsd.org> <20031005142519.GA76750@sheol.localdomain> <20031005163252.GC399@cowbert.2y.net> <20031005171245.GA82807@sheol.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031005171245.GA82807@sheol.localdomain> X-Url: http://www.celabo.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i-ja.1 cc: security at FreeBSD cc: peter.lai@uconn.edu Subject: Re: 4.6-R (Was: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:18.openssl) X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 12:04:49 -0000 On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:12:45PM -0500, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > According to a HEADSUP sent out by Jacques, RELENG_4_6 was supported by > SA-03:15, and the CVS tree updated. RELENG_4_6 was also supported by > SA-03:18, but I'm not certain if its CVS tree was updated (neither the > HEADSUP nor the SA explicitly says so, but I'll bet it has been). Yes, the SA says so: Corrected: [...] 2003-10-03 20:24:59 UTC (RELENG_4_6, 4.6.2-RELEASE-p26) > I'm not sure if RELENG_4_6 is EOL'd or not (though I think it is). Having > said that, the Security team does release patches for EOL'd releases as > they see fit. No need to guess. See the table at . > > I was expecting to be able to manually patch my 4.6 sources > > and recompile just the crypto/secure subsystems but instead I was forced to Manual patching is really only recommended for gurus. Please use CVSup and report any problems. > > upgrade to 4.8 which broke a ton of other stuff (mainly ports). Maybe I should > > have moved to RELENG_4_7 instead. RELENG_4_7 was EoL'd on September 30. Hmm, actually I think I'll extend that to October 31, considering the delay on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine . NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal nectar@celabo.org . jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@freebsd.org . nectar@kth.se