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Date:      Wed, 3 Apr 1996 08:36:22 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list)
Cc:        e9203125@linf.unb.br (Alex Carlos Braga Ant\co)
Subject:   Re: BUGS and PATCHES list !
Message-ID:  <199604030636.IAA14909@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <3161AF0F.17C@linf.unb.br> from "Alex Carlos Braga Ant\co" at Apr 2, 96 07:49:51 pm

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As Alex Carlos Braga Ant\co wrote:

>   How and where may I find a list of BUGS and patches to these bugs 
> already found on FreeBSD ? Especialy related to security.

Well, if there were a BUGS list, perhaps they would already have been
fixed. :-)

There's the GNATS database that tracks the submissions of problem
reports, including the notions of applied fixes.  I might be wrong,
but i don't think there are any reported and still open security-
related bugs in it.

Non-detected bugs are quite another matter, of course. :)

I think the most prominent security-related bug fixes have been the
``telnet bug'' (telnetd imported random environmental variables,
including the LD_* that affect the behaviour of the run-time loader),
and the infamous ``syslog bug'' (syslog(3) could trash its stack).
The fixes for both are in the latest official release, FreeBSD-2.1R.

We normally don't have the resources to provide you with two dozen
cryptically numbered ``bug fix tapes'' however...

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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