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To: "Richard Wackerbarth" <rkw@dataplex.net>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-SA-97:02: Buffer overflow in lpd 
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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:23:00 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <AF5F0440-5CDD7@204.69.236.50> "Richard Wackerbarth" writes:
: On Wed, Mar 26, 1997 3:37 PM, FreeBSD Security Officer
: <mailto:security-officer@freebsd.org> wrote: 
: >FreeBSD-SA-97:02                                            Security
: Advisory
: ...
: 
: >Affects:        FreeBSD 2.1.7 and earlier and FreeBSD 2.2 snapshots
: >		before 1997/02/25 suffer from this problem.
: >Corrected:      FreeBSD-current as of 1997/02/25
: >		FreeBSD 2.2 as of 1997/02/25
: 
: May I ask why you failed to include this correction in our 2.1
: distribution?
: That is still the "stable" branch and SHOULD receive this kind of support
: at least until 2.2 gains some maturity in the real world.

That was an oversight in the advisory.  This has been corrected in the
2.1 branch at the same time it was corrected in the 2.2 and -current
branches.


Warner