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Date:      Thu, 18 May 2000 03:27:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
To:        Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Security Officer <security-officer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Netscape47 ports outdated
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.4.21.0005180317290.11331-100000@blues.jpj.net>
In-Reply-To: <200005162350.JAA21942@lightning.itga.com.au>

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On Wed, 17 May 2000, Gregory Bond wrote:

> The Makefiles for the Netscape47 ports are still looking for 4.72, but the
> version available from netscape.com is 4.73.

Some of the ports have been updated, and updates have been submitted for
others.  There is a CERT advisory (CA-2000-05, "Netscape Navigator
Improperly Validates SSL Sessions") at
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-05.html .  It says "Systems running
Netscape Navigator 4.72, 4.61, and 4.07 [are affected]. Other versions
less than 4.72 are likely to be affected as well."  The problem is also
described at http://home.netscape.com/security/notes/index.html .
According to both, version 4.73 is not vulnerable.

I suggest that:
- updates to the Netscape 4.7 ports receive priority
- the FreeBSD security officer issue an alert
--
Trevor Johnson
http://jpj.net/~trevor/gpgkey.txt



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