From owner-freebsd-security Mon Feb 3 08:35:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA06650 for security-outgoing; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 08:35:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from gateway.skipstone.com (root@GATEWAY.SKIPSTONE.COM [198.214.10.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA06645 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 08:35:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from [204.69.236.50] (hotapplepie.skipstone.com [204.69.236.50]) by gateway.skipstone.com (8.7.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA07563; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 10:21:17 -0600 Date: 3 Feb 97 10:22:11 -0600 Subject: Re: Question: 2.1.7? From: "Richard Wackerbarth" To: "Joe Greco" Cc: security@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Cyberdog/2.0a2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Feb 3, 1997 8:22 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > With the recent exploits for things such as talkd, sendmail, and the > wonderful freakin' locale processing problem I see on bugtraq, would > it be wise to consider a 2.1 point release that addressed these issues? Personally, I do not feel that a 2.1.7 release is appropriate. 2.2 is "just around the corner". However, I do feel that the patches need to be committed to the 2.1 tree. Those who are interested can track 2.1 via CTM or CVSup. It is my intention to continue supplying the CTM updates for 2.1 until such time as either 1) all those with commit privledges refuse to make additional commits or 2) 2.2 has been tested sufficiently that we can reasonably recommend that users (including those who run "mission critical" situations such as eg. ISP servers) upgrade to it. However, I am not within the group of comitters and can therefore simply add my voice to those who encourage that these important corrections be committed to the 2.1 branch as well as later branches.