New 5.3p5; broken security advisory listing

[Alan Amesbury]

Recently I noticed in RELENG_5_3 that FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE-p5 now 
exists.  The entry in /usr/src/UPDATING says

    20050114:       p5      FreeBSD-EN-05:03.ipi
            Avoid more than two pending IPI interrupt vectors per local
            APIC as this may cause deadlocks.


This sounds serious enough to warrant an entry in the 5.3 errata list, 
but the one at

    http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/errata.html


shows nothing relating to this.  I realize y'all have real lives, too, 
but it seemed unusual to me that a patch would find its way into the 
production branch without any indication in the usual spots (other than 
the aforementioned UPDATING, and obvious changes in the source tree).  
So, I'm NOT complaining, just somewhat puzzled.

Since I'm not sure of the scope of this problem, I also checked 
FreeBSD's security advisories to see if there was something there, and 
happened to run into another problem.  In

    http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html


is a link to

    ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/index.html


labelled "FTP CERT repository 
<ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/index.html>".  Following this 
link returns a "550 Failed to change directory" error.  I think this is 
because /pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/www/data/gifs doesn't actually 
exist on freebsd.isc.org.

Anyway, figured y'all might want to know about this (if you didn't already).


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Alan Amesbury
University of Minnesota