From owner-freebsd-security Sat Jun 2 4:21: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A2B437B422 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 04:21:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@ringworld.nanolink.com) Received: (qmail 28142 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Jun 2001 11:19:58 -0000 Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 14:19:58 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Dominic Parry Cc: freeBSD-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Netscape Message-ID: <20010602141958.A27751@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Dominic Parry , freeBSD-security@FreeBSD.org References: <20010602125454.A692@dude.dsl.ru.ac.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010602125454.A692@dude.dsl.ru.ac.za>; from dom@dude.dsl.ru.ac.za on Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 12:54:54PM +0200 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 On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 12:54:54PM +0200, Dominic Parry wrote: > Hi > > What is the problem with Netscape? > > :/usr/ports/www/netscape47-navigator # make > ===> netscape-navigator-4.76 is marked as broken: Has a serious security > hole, use 4.77 instead. > > Is anyone looking into fixing this? Not really; Netscape Communications have not bothered to release 4.77 for BSD/OS (or, for that matter, for FreeBSD). The FreeBSD port maintainers cannot update the port to 4.77, until there actually *is* a 4.77 version for BSD/OS :) For the present, your best bet is to install Linux emulation, and use the www/linux-netscape47-{navigator,communicator} ports. This way, you'd even gain more, because there are quite a lot more plug-ins for the Linux browser than there are for the BSD/OS one. (I guess it might even be possible to run a Linux plug-in on a BSD/OS browser binary under Linux emulation, but I wouldn't bet on that..) G'luck, Peter -- If there were no counterfactuals, this sentence would not have been paradoxical. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message