Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:36:40 GMT From: Jason Byrne <slvr32@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/172736: http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:05.bind.asc instructions assume existence of previous builds and libraries Message-ID: <201210152136.q9FLaeG7045133@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201210152140.q9FLe1pT059582@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 172736 >Category: misc >Synopsis: http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:05.bind.asc instructions assume existence of previous builds and libraries >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Oct 15 21:40:00 UTC 2012 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Jason Byrne >Release: 8.2-P9 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD fw31.cis 8.2-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p9 >Description: I regularly build new releases, and install fresh boxes at the current patch level, e.g. FreeBSD 8.2-P9. I've found that the instructions in some advisories seem to assume that the maintainer of a box has used previous advisories to maintain that box from a previous patch level, and the instructions aren't necessarily correct as standalone instructions, especially if you have a box that was freshly installed at a particular patch level. For example, for the latest BIND advisory... http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:05.bind.asc - If you happened to do a clean install of FreeBSD 8.2-P9, and you don't already have libraries built below /usr/src/lib/bind, then running # cd /usr/src/lib/bind/dns # make obj && make depend && make && make install and then following up with the next set of instructions # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/named # make obj && make depend && make && make install you'll get several complaints about missing libraries under /usr/src/lib/bind. I'd argue that the safer set of instructions, not assuming that related libraries under /usr/src/lib/bind/isc, /usr/src/lib/bind/isccc, /usr/src/lib/bind/isccfg, etc... are built would be the following... # cd /usr/src/lib/bind # make obj && make depend && make && make install and then proceeding with # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/named # make obj && make depend && make && make install Thanks, - Jason >How-To-Repeat: Do a fresh install of FreeBSD 8.2-P9 (assuming that you maintain a release server, and build releases at the current patch level). Follow instructions for http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:05.bind.asc >Fix: Don't assume existence of several libraries under /usr/src/lib/bind from previous BIND advisories. Run the following as the first 'build' step... # cd /usr/src/lib/bind # make obj && make depend && make && make install rather than # cd /usr/src/lib/bind/dns # make obj && make depend && make && make install >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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