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Date:      Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:03:58 -0500
From:      Alan <security@unixpower.org>
To:        "Harry M. Leitzell" <Harry_M_Leitzell@cmu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3.1-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <19990319150358.B21298@unixpower.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96L.990319134429.7811A-100000@unix13.andrew.cmu.edu>; from Harry M. Leitzell on Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 01:49:20PM -0500
References:  <Pine.SOL.3.96L.990319134429.7811A-100000@unix13.andrew.cmu.edu>

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On Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 01:49:20PM -0500, Harry M. Leitzell wrote:
> 	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?
> 

cvsup using ports supfile in /usr/share/examples/cvsup, after you do this
try to make the port for proftpd.

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