FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:01.telnet

[Daniel Gerzo]

Hey Will,

Monday, March 28, 2005, 11:24:08 PM, si napisal:

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 07:52:14PM +0000, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote:

> [ Not sure else where to follow up to - I don't want to bug the security
> team directly about this, so just writing the list for now ]

>> b) Execute the following commands as root:
>> 
>> # cd /usr/src
>> # patch < /path/to/patch

> On my home machine (5.3-RELEASE) this failed - I had to go to 
> /usr/src/contrib/telnet/telnet for the patch to apply.

>> c) Rebuild the operating system as described in
>> <URL:http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html>.

> Just curious... why is it necessary to rebuild the whole operating
> system? Normally, the security advisories just have you rebuild the
> program in question - wouldn't that have sufficed here?

  I think, this might be enought:
  
  cd /usr/src/usr.bin/telnet ; make clean && make all install

  but I don't exactly know, if this is really correct way how to do
  it..

> w

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