[security-advisories@freebsd.org: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:17.procfs]

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Fri Oct 3 19:23:06 PDT 2003


On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:10:41PM -0400, Barney Wolff wrote:
> Does this mean that the situation can ever arise where a security bug
> is corrected in the advisory's announced releases but not in -current?

No. Well, at least not to date.

> Or, can we assume that as of the time of the security announcement
> the vulnerability has *always* been corrected in -current?

Yes.  You will need to run cvsup to update your sources and
at a minimum rebuild the vulnerable application.

-- 
Steve


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