Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

Jerry freebsd.user at seibercom.net
Fri Oct 1 20:59:47 UTC 2010


On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:14:20 -0500
Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> articulated:

> You must have missed 
> http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2.asc ;
> patches for 6, 7, and 8 are available there, and freebsd-update has
> fixed binaries if you use that.

Never saw it. So I am assuming that simply using something like:

csup -L2 -h cvsup.FreeBSD.org "/usr/src/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile"

Then rebuild Kernel & World is not going to work. Is that correct?

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