Fw: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-07:07.bind

[Josh Paetzel]

Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2007.08.02 14:21:07 +0400, John Freeman wrote:
> > 
> >> John Freeman wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Same problem on AMD64 build. I'm too lazy to attach full text, this
> >>> system doesn't use bind and jail.
> >> 
> >> What branch are you tracking?
> > 
> > After today's cvsup all ok , it solved? Wasn't compile only after patch 
> > included in SA.
> 
> RELENG_6 was already fixed 2007-07-25 08:23:08 UTC by dougb, so the
> patch wasn't tested against RELENG_6 at all but only against the
> release / security branches.  Most of the time the released patches
> will work against the stable branches, but not always.
> 
> -- 
> Simon L. Nielsen
> FreeBSD Security Team

This is sort of an unusual situation isn't it, where RELENG_6 is fixed
prior to the SA being released?  If so it might have been useful for
the SA to say something about affecting STABLE before xxxx-xx-xx where
xxxx-xx-xx is the date that the fix was committed.

-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel
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