Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 11:58:29 -0800 (PST) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: "Harry M. Leitzell" <Harry_M_Leitzell@cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <ML-3.3.921873509.9983.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96L.990319134429.7811A-100000@unix13.andrew.cmu.edu>
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> I am just curious as to who updates the ports for the RELEASEs. > It seems when I was installing 3.1 on a friends machine yesterday and went > to install an ftp daemon, I ended up using the ports to install proftpd. > The only problem with this is that the ports collection installed pre1 > which has a known buffer overflow in it. Maybe I am wrong in assuming > this is a bad thing ... but shouldn't someone be checking and updating > things like this? I suspect that pre1 was the most current version when the ports tree was frozen for 3.1-RELEASE. If you install the 3.1->current package (from the Web/FTP site) and then CVSup ports, you will find that it is now using pre2. (And has been since at least the end of February.) -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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