latest security advisory and 5.1R

[Ronald Clark]

All, 

I have what I hope is a simple question. If I cvsup my sources and
complete the makeworld and installworld processes, will that install the
patch, or do I need to apply manually and recompile the kernel? (I have
been under the impression that doing a cvsup would download and install
the patch when sources were updated)

Thanks in advance for the clarification,

Ron Clark


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Seaman
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 7:29 AM
To: Ed Budd
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: latest security advisory and 5.1R

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:24:43AM -0500, Ed Budd wrote:

> Can anyone confirm whether 5.1R is affected by yesterday's security 
> advisory (FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp)?
> 
> On the one hand it says that this affects "All FreeBSD releases" but 
> on the other hand only lists STABLE, 5.2, 5.2.1, 4.9 and 4.8 under 
> "corrected". Does this mean it IS affected but not yet fixed on those 
> versions?

As it says: all FreeBSD releases are affected.  Fixes have been released
for all supported versions of the OS, and detailed in the advisory.
It's possible that those fixes will be back-ported to older versions,
but you can't afford to assume so.  Besides, you read the comments about
"New Technology Releases" and "suitable for early adopters only" when
you installed 5.1-RELEASE didn't you?  Now that 5.2.1-RELEASE is out,
you should probably upgrade.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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