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Date:      Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:44:59 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
Cc:        Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, Jason DiCioccio <jdicioccio@epylon.com>, "'security@freebsd.org'" <security@freebsd.org>, kris@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:
Message-ID:  <20010711114459.B86556@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010711104608.A600@shade.nectar.com>; from n@nectar.com on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:46:09AM -0500
References:  <657B20E93E93D4118F9700D0B73CE3EA02FFEFA1@goofy.epylon.lan> <20010711015958.0921D3E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org> <20010711104608.A600@shade.nectar.com>

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On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:46:09AM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 06:59:57PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> > Jason DiCioccio <jdicioccio@epylon.com> writes:
> > > So then I'm guessing this has been 3.5-STABLE is not vulnerable?=20
> > > Just want to be sure :-)
> >=20
> > What makes you say that?  The necessary fix isn't present in RELENG_3,
> > and I doubt that there's something else which hides the issue. =20
>=20
> I haven't  double-checked, but it looks  like this bug was  enabled by
> revision  1.54  of  src/sys/kern/kern_fork.c (allowing  shared  signal
> handlers  with  rfork).   That   would  include  3.1-RELEASE  and  all
> following releases.

As was announced several months ago, we are no longer requiring
security fixes for locally exploitable vulnerabilities under RELENG_3,
only network-exploitable vulnerabilities.

Kris

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