Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 08:35:01 +0000 From: zhaghzhagh@openmailbox.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Security Advisory - release version, user or kernel patch =?UTF-8?Q?level=3F?= Message-ID: <a3b1b792aec0463256e998d479f8eb06@openmailbox.org>
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Good morning Every now and then I get confused by the version number of security patches. For example: https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-17:02.openssl.asc: ... Corrected: 2017-01-26 19:14:14 UTC (stable/11, 11.0-STABLE) 2017-02-23 07:11:48 UTC (releng/11.0, 11.0-RELEASE-p8) 2017-01-27 07:45:06 UTC (stable/10, 10.3-STABLE) 2017-02-23 07:12:18 UTC (releng/10.3, 10.3-RELEASE-p17) ... [user@domain ~]$ uname -a FreeBSD domain.tld 10.3-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p11 #0: Mon Oct 24 18:47:18 UTC 2016 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Guesses: 1. 'uname' - 'p11' = kernel patch level (?) 2. '10.3-RELEASE-p17' - 'p17' = user patch level (?) What if there is a security patch that affects only kernel? Is it safe in all times to use 'freebsd-version -u' to decide whether my host needs to be updated, upon a security notification is issued? (Don't want to run 'freebsd-update' unnecessarily.) Thanks!
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