Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 23:42:53 -0800 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: "R. David Murray" <bitz@bitdance.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Security Bulletins and Related Updates Message-ID: <f05100324b8c0906ea0be@[10.0.1.90]> In-Reply-To: <20020319083437.Y75778-100000@twirl.bitdance.com> References: <20020319083437.Y75778-100000@twirl.bitdance.com>
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At 8:38 -0500 3/19/02, R. David Murray wrote: >On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Doug Hardie wrote: >> I recently received 2 security bulletins dealing with security issues >> in the releases. These last two did not include updates for >> 4.3-RELENG. The first one was a very simple patch that obviously was >> fine with the 4.3 sources. That was easily updated. This last one >> with zlib double-free is not as simple or obvious. > >Someone may want to address your point in general, but as for >the zlib patch, quoting from the security advisory: > >"This patch has been verified to apply to all FreeBSD 4.x versions." > >Are you saying this was not true? > >--RDM I did see that, but with a number of systems to maintain, I really like having the source on one and using it to update the others. That way if I do need to replace a system, its a straight forward install from the master system. Keeping track of patches is quite difficult. However, as was pointed on in another message, I did miss the source update for 4.3 in the last security notice. Its there twice and I missed both. -- -- Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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