RE: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-04:12.jailroute

From: Kyle Mott (kyle_at_xraided.net)
Date: 06/08/04

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    To: "'Colin Percival'" <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
    Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 12:26:36 -0700
    
    

    If we are running RELENG_4, will we still receive the fix? I ask because
    it says to upgrade to 4.10-RELEASE, RELENG_4_8, or RELENG_4_9. Am I
    misunderstanding the RELENG tags?
     
     
     
    -Kyle Mott

     
     
     

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-freebsd-security@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
    > security@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Colin Percival
    > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 3:19 AM
    > To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org
    > Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-04:12.jailroute
    >
    > At 22:06 07/06/2004, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote:
    > >FreeBSD-SA-04:12.jailroute Security
    > Advisory
    > >Affects: All FreeBSD 4.x releases prior to 4.10-RELEASE
    >
    > As a few people have noted, this should read "FreeBSD 4.8 and 4.9";
    this
    > bug
    > never existed in earlier versions of FreeBSD.
    > That said, FreeBSD 4.7 and earlier are no longer officially
    supported,
    > and it
    > is highly recommended that people upgrade to a newer version, since
    there
    > have
    > been recent security advisories concerning issues to which earlier
    > releases are
    > still vulnerable.
    >
    > >V. Solution
    >
    > >Do one of the following:
    > >
    > >1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to 4.10-RELEASE, or to the
    RELENG_4_8
    > >or RELENG_4_9 security branch dated after the correction date.
    > >
    > >OR
    > >
    > >2) Patch your present system:
    >
    > or, as usual,
    >
    > 3) If you are running an affected release, you can use FreeBSD Update:
    > # cd /usr/ports/security/freebsd-update && make all install
    > # cp /usr/local/etc/freebsd-update.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/freebsd-
    > update.conf
    > # /usr/local/sbin/freebsd-update fetch
    > # /usr/local/sbin/freebsd-update install
    >
    > For more details, see http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/ .
    >
    > Note that this is something I'm providing personally; it is in no
    way
    > endorsed by the Security Officer or the Project as a whole.
    >
    > Colin Percival
    >
    >
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