From owner-freebsd-vendors Mon Jul 8 8:15: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-vendors@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A36537B400; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 08:15:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.sandvine.com (sandvine.com [199.243.201.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF4443E09; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 08:15:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from don@sandvine.com) Received: by mail.sandvine.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 11:15:04 -0400 Message-ID: From: Don Bowman To: 'Murray Stokely' , stable@FreeBSD.org Cc: vendors@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Upcoming 4.6.1 Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 11:15:04 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-vendors@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-vendors" in the body of the message