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Date:      Sat, 14 Apr 2001 11:29:43 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Joachim_Str=F6mbergson?= <watchman@ludd.luth.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape 4.77?
Message-ID:  <20010414112943.A82380@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <3AD864E2.52D94F38@ludd.luth.se>; from watchman@ludd.luth.se on Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 04:55:30PM %2B0200
References:  <3AD30420.2E2476E1@typhoon.co.jp> <20010414144823.A861@xor.obsecurity.org> <3AD864E2.52D94F38@ludd.luth.se>

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On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 04:55:30PM +0200, Joachim Strömbergson wrote:

> fetis:/usr/ports/www> cd netscape47-communicator/
> fetis:/usr/ports/www/netscape47-communicator> make install
> ===>  netscape-communicator-4.76 is marked as broken: has a serious
> security hole, use 4.77 instead.
> 
> Ok, sounds ok, but *how* do I do it? Apart from using
> linux-netscape47-communicator?
> 
> Searching the netscape web page reveals that the latest FreeBSD version
> is 4.76.

Well, therein lies the problem.  If you don't care about the security
impact of the problem (read the netscape release notes or check
bugtraq) then feel free to uncomment the FORBIDDEN line until/if
Netscape release a new native binary.

Kris

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