Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:24:08 -0800 From: Will Yardley <freebsd-security@veggiechinese.net> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:01.telnet Message-ID: <20050328212408.GC12478@mitch.veggiechinese.net>
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On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 07:52:14PM +0000, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote: [ Not sure else where to follow up to - I don't want to bug the security team directly about this, so just writing the list for now ] > b) Execute the following commands as root: > > # cd /usr/src > # patch < /path/to/patch On my home machine (5.3-RELEASE) this failed - I had to go to /usr/src/contrib/telnet/telnet for the patch to apply. > c) Rebuild the operating system as described in > <URL:http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html>. Just curious... why is it necessary to rebuild the whole operating system? Normally, the security advisories just have you rebuild the program in question - wouldn't that have sufficed here? w
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