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Date:      Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:14:20 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability
Message-ID:  <20101001171420.GE40148@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101001121332.5b04fa61@scorpio>
References:  <20101001121332.5b04fa61@scorpio>

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In the last episode (Oct 01), Jerry said:
> I have seen several notices on other forums regarding the update of bzip2
> to correct a potential security problem.  From the bzip2 web site:
> 
> <quote>
> The current version is 1.0.6, released 20 Sept 2010.
> 
> Version 1.0.6 removes a potential security vulnerability,
> CVE-2010-0405, so all users are recommended to upgrade immediately.
> </quote>
> 
> The version supplied on FreeBSD-8.1/amd64 is version 1.0.5,
> 10-Dec-2007. Are there any plans to update this supplied version?

You must have missed 
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2.asc ; patches
for 6, 7, and 8 are available there, and freebsd-update has fixed binaries
if you use that.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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