Patching Openssh on 4.9 PRERELEASE

David Wagenheim davidwagenheim at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 16 16:53:59 PDT 2003


Okay, so I could go and put any date in there that I
like but how would I verify that the update has
worked?  My manually changing the date to give myself
peace of mind doesn't sit well with me.

Thanx,

David



--- FreeBSD Mail Lists <freebsd at brittney.jlschwab.com>
wrote:
> David;
> 
> 	You need to edit version.h within
> 	/usr/src/crypto/openssh/version.h
> 
> 	and change the FreeBSD-20030201
> 	to be FreeBSD-20030916.
> 
> 	The patch doesnt update the date.
> 	Only patches the security issue.
> 
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, David Wagenheim wrote:
> 
> > The other day I cvsup'd using the stable supfile,
> did
> > buildworld, installworld and built and installed a
> new
> > kernel.  All of that went fine and I now have a
> > 4.9-PRERELEASE box.
> >
> > Today, I went to patch OpenSSH and I did:
> >
> > # cd /usr/src
> > # patch < /root/buffer46.patch
> > # cd /usr/src/secure/lib/libssh
> > # make clean
> > # make depend && make all install
> > # cd /usr/src/secure/usr.sbin/sshd
> > # make clean
> > # make depend && make all install
> > # cd /usr/src/secure/usr.bin/ssh
> > # make clean
> > # make depend && make all install
> >
> > Everything went fine but when I checked the
> version of
> > the newly built sshd, it said:
> >
> > sshd Version OpenSSH_3.5p1 FreeBSD-20030201
> >
> > but according to the advisory, for 4.8, it should
> be:
> >
> > OpenSSH_3.5p1 FreeBSD-20030916
> >
> > (For all versions of FreeBSD mentioned in the
> > advisory, the version # of OpenSSH reflects
> 20030916,
> > so I assume mine should as well).
> >
> > Now I know that I don't have 4.8 but rather 4.9,
> but
> > does the fact that the version number doesn't
> reflect
> > September 16 mean that there currently isn't a way
> to
> > update sshd on a 4.9 system?
> >
> > If it is helpful, output from uname -a is:
> >
> > FreeBSD db.mydomain.com 4.9-PRERELEASE #0: Sun Sep
> 14
> > 17:38:58 EST 2003
> > root at db.mydomain.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> >
> > Thanx,
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> > __________________________________
> > Do you Yahoo!?
> > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site
> design software
> > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
> > _______________________________________________
> > freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> >
>
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to
> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
> >

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software
http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list