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Date:      Tue, 26 Nov 1996 09:34:08 +0100 (MET)
From:      Guido van Rooij <Guido.vanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com>
To:        fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
Cc:        security-officer@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-96:18.lpr
Message-ID:  <199611260834.JAA21795@spooky.lss.cp.philips.com>
In-Reply-To: <96Nov25.191950pst.177711@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from Bill Fenner at "Nov 25, 96 07:19:39 pm"

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Bill Fenner wrote:
> In message <199611252218.XAA11972@gvr.win.tue.nl> security-officer wrote:
> >Affects:	FreeBSD 2.*
> >Corrected:	FreeBSD-current as of 1996/10/27
> >		FreeBSD-stable as of 1996/11/01
> 
> Shouldn't this be something more like
> 
> Affects:	FreeBSD 2.0, 2.0.5, 2.1, 2.1.5
> Corrected:	FreeBSD-current as of 1996/10/27
> 		FreeBSD-stable as of 1996/11/01
> 		FreeBSD 2.2 and 2.1.6 releases
> 
> or something?  The timing of the advisory and the statement "FreeBSD 2.*" 
> implies that 2.1.6 is affected, while the CVS tree says that the fix was in 
> 2.1.6 .  Yes, if you know that 2.1.6 was based on FreeBSD-stable and was 
> released after 1996/11/01, then you can derive the same information, but why 
> not make it explicit?  (Especially for the person who is browsing the security 
> advisories next year and comes across this one... "oh, shoot, 2.2 is 
> affected"...)

Yes indeed. I'll send a revised one later today.

-Guido



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