Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 08:51:02 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question: 2.1.7? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970204084744.25849I-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199702031422.IAA17586@solaria.sol.net>
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On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, 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? > > If not, maybe a "patchkit" that could be installed (source or binary, > whatever) could be done. But I think a "2.1.7" type release would be > most ideal... > > I would be happy to work on some of this, as I have already done the > work for some of the problems. I have already suggested a 'security update package repository' to Jordan and Paul Traina. They like the idea. Still musing over the exact implementation though. But as soon as I get libc patches, I'll build packages for 2.1.0, 2.1.5 and 2.1.6 and make them available from somewhere, along with sendmail885. regards, Dannyhome | help
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