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Date:      Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:52:37 -0700
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>, eol1@yahoo.com
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:20.bind
Message-ID:  <44FF5F45.5020901@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <44FF5E1F.2080607@freebsd.org>
References:  <20060906230642.39757.qmail@web51909.mail.yahoo.com> <44FF5E1F.2080607@freebsd.org>

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I wrote:
> I don't know enough of what the ports do to be certain about the answer
> to that question, but here are the files in the FreeBSD 6.x base system
> which are affected by these security advisories:
> ...
> If the ports replace all of those files, you should be safe (at least
> on FreeBSD 6.x -- I can give you a list of files modified on FreeBSD
> 5.x and 4.11 once those FreeBSD Update builds finish).

Err, and by "you should be safe" I mean "if you've installed an updated
copy of the two ports you should be safe".  Obviously the ports had the
same security problems as the base system code.

Colin Percival



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