Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-01:40.fts

From: Kris Kennaway (kris@obsecurity.org)
Date: 06/06/01 

Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:31:16 -0700
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Christopher Schulte <christopher@schulte.org>

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

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