Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:18:57 -0500 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: Alan Amesbury <amesbury@oitsec.umn.edu> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New 5.3p5; broken security advisory listing Message-ID: <20050120051857.GA23364@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> In-Reply-To: <41EF3D6D.4080602@oitsec.umn.edu> References: <41EF3D6D.4080602@oitsec.umn.edu>
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:11:09PM -0600, Alan Amesbury wrote: > Recently I noticed in RELENG_5_3 that FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE-p5 now > exists. The entry in /usr/src/UPDATING says > > 20050114: p5 FreeBSD-EN-05:03.ipi > Avoid more than two pending IPI interrupt vectors per local > APIC as this may cause deadlocks. > > > This sounds serious enough to warrant an entry in the 5.3 errata list, > but the one at > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/errata.html That is the errata that existed at the time 5.3 was released. We didn't know about this problem at that time. > shows nothing relating to this. I realize y'all have real lives, too, > but it seemed unusual to me that a patch would find its way into the > production branch without any indication in the usual spots (other than > the aforementioned UPDATING, and obvious changes in the source tree). > So, I'm NOT complaining, just somewhat puzzled. When an Errata Notice is created we send mail to the freebsd-announce mailing list. That's the "usual spot". > Since I'm not sure of the scope of this problem, I also checked > FreeBSD's security advisories to see if there was something there, and > happened to run into another problem. In > > http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html > > is a link to > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/index.html > > labelled "FTP CERT repository > <ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/index.html>". Following this > link returns a "550 Failed to change directory" error. I think this is > because /pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/www/data/gifs doesn't actually > exist on freebsd.isc.org. > > Anyway, figured y'all might want to know about this (if you didn't already). Both security advisories and errata notices are announced on the freebsd-announce mailing list. We also post both of them on the main Web page. They're listed on the right side of http://www.freebsd.org towards the bottom-right side of the page. -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |
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