From owner-freebsd-announce Tue Jun 2 12:24:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA22758 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 12:24:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gvr.gvr.org (guido@gvr.gvr.org [194.151.74.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22642; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 12:24:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from security-officer@freebsd.org) Received: (from guido@localhost) by gvr.gvr.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id VAA13079; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 21:23:51 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 21:23:51 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199806021923.VAA13079@gvr.gvr.org> From: FreeBSD Security Officer Subject: Announcement regarding FreeBSD Security advisories To: undisclosed-recipients:; Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Reply-To: postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This document explains the policy currently in use by the FreeBSD security officer with respect to security advisories. FreeBSD provides security advisories. The advisories will cover recent releases of FreeBSD. The security advisories will cover these releases: the most recent official release of FreeBSD, FreeBSD-current, FreeBSD-stable, when 2 releases are based on it. the previous FreeBSD-stable in case the new stable does not yet have 2 releases based on it. At this time, security advisories are available for: FreeBSD 2.2.6 FreeBSD-current FreeBSD-stable Older releases will not be actively maintained. You are encouraged to upgrade to one of the supported releases. An advisory will be sent out when a security hole exists that is either being actively abused (as indicated to us via reports from end users or CERT like organizations), or when the security hole is public knowledge (e.g. because a report has been posted to a public mailing list). Like all development efforts, security fixes are first brought into the FreeBSD-current branch. After a couple of days, the fix will be retrofitted into the covered FreeBSD-stable branch(es). Then an advisory will be sent out. Advisories will be sent to the following FreeBSD mailing lists: FreeBSD-security-notifications FreeBSD-security FreeBSD-announce Advisories will always be signed using the FreeBSD security-officer PGP key. This key can be found at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/public_key.asc Advisories are archived at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories Patches mentioned in advisories are archived (both signed and unsigned) at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/patches -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNXRPbFUuHi5z0oilAQFLagP+I6ZuGubJnmVBd6Geysrhrgfd38hsN5XA 8zKnHVMckmfueneDBv2AQj+J1DzdAP//K2keow50ZpIRZh+SBSjlk2NVlDIL6MUP aO28cmjgWnIwP14sRQHzRsXJzZ6aBf48uIUHuPouh1J2hAUNeiQls0+mqqgHS2Ue BF1MbjYcNGI= =9YV4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message