FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-04:12.jailroute

Colin Percival colin.percival at wadham.ox.ac.uk
Tue Jun 8 10:18:49 GMT 2004


At 22:06 07/06/2004, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote:
>FreeBSD-SA-04:12.jailroute                                  Security Advisory
>Affects:        All FreeBSD 4.x releases prior to 4.10-RELEASE

  As a few people have noted, this should read "FreeBSD 4.8 and 4.9"; this bug
never existed in earlier versions of FreeBSD.
  That said, FreeBSD 4.7 and earlier are no longer officially supported, and it
is highly recommended that people upgrade to a newer version, since there have
been recent security advisories concerning issues to which earlier releases are
still vulnerable.

>V.   Solution

>Do one of the following:
>
>1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to 4.10-RELEASE, or to the RELENG_4_8
>or RELENG_4_9 security branch dated after the correction date.
>
>OR
>
>2) Patch your present system:

or, as usual,

3) If you are running an affected release, you can use FreeBSD Update:
# cd /usr/ports/security/freebsd-update && make all install
# cp /usr/local/etc/freebsd-update.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/freebsd-update.conf
# /usr/local/sbin/freebsd-update fetch
# /usr/local/sbin/freebsd-update install

For more details, see http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/ .

  Note that this is something I'm providing personally; it is in no way
endorsed by the Security Officer or the Project as a whole.

Colin Percival




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