FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:20.bind

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Wed Sep 6 16:54:29 PDT 2006


I wrote:
> I don't know enough of what the ports do to be certain about the answer
> to that question, but here are the files in the FreeBSD 6.x base system
> which are affected by these security advisories:
> ...
> If the ports replace all of those files, you should be safe (at least
> on FreeBSD 6.x -- I can give you a list of files modified on FreeBSD
> 5.x and 4.11 once those FreeBSD Update builds finish).

Err, and by "you should be safe" I mean "if you've installed an updated
copy of the two ports you should be safe".  Obviously the ports had the
same security problems as the base system code.

Colin Percival


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