Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:31:16 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Christopher Schulte <christopher@schulte.org> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-01:40.fts Message-ID: <20010606093116.C15460@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010605135437.0278eeb0@pop.schulte.org>; from christopher@schulte.org on Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:02:45PM -0500 References: <200106051808.f55I8ik15444@freefall.freebsd.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20010605135437.0278eeb0@pop.schulte.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:02:45PM -0500, Christopher Schulte wrote: > At 11:08 AM 6/5/2001 -0700, you wrote: > >This patch has been verified to apply to FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE and > >4.2-RELEASE; it may or may not apply to older, unsupported versions of > >FreeBSD. > > Can someone comment on the impact of applying this patch to a 4.2-STABLE > environment? One might assume since 4.2-S falls between 4.2-R and 4.3-R, > it would work? Not necessarily; we only support releases because it's too hard to make patches for every possible intermediate version. It turns out in this case the patch didn't even apply to 4.2-REL (needed a minor tweak) although I thought I tested it. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7HlrUWry0BWjoQKURAltfAJ0RRXWKyNFwx65KOW+0em1cp2zOxgCgjU89 +z80iK4ATHb4TkzRxRYhIKU= =4L6O -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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