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Date:      Mon, 8 Jul 2002 11:15:04 -0400 
From:      Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com>
To:        'Murray Stokely' <murray@FreeBSD.org>, stable@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        vendors@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: Upcoming 4.6.1
Message-ID:  <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C853376766DC@mail.sandvine.com>

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Murray Stokely wrote:
> 
>   The release engineers, port managers, and security officer team are
> currently working on a conservative set of changes to merge to the
> RELENG_4_6 branch in preparation for a 4.6.1 release.  This point
> release will include Soren's one-line ATA patch that fixes some of the
> reported ATA problems, along with security-related updates for SSH,
> BIND, ktrace, and possibly sendmail.  4.6.1 is currently scheduled for
> July 17.  If you have any questions or comments about this point
> release, please let us (re@) know.  Thanks!

I would suggest that Jonathan Lemon's patch to kern_sig.c be
included. Its trivial to panic a system from user space without it.
(Revision 1.72.2.16). The patch is also very simple (a missing
splhigh()/splx()).

--don

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