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Date:      Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:59:44 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: telnetd update?
Message-ID:  <20010725225944.A84940@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <GPEOJKGHAMKFIOMAGMDIKEHAEKAA.deepak@ai.net>; from deepak@ai.net on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:12:39AM -0400
References:  <20010725214528.A43468@xor.obsecurity.org> <GPEOJKGHAMKFIOMAGMDIKEHAEKAA.deepak@ai.net>

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On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:12:39AM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote:
>=20
> Thanks, I did read the advisory.
>=20
> On the machines I am involved with the patch worked beautifully, no
> questions asked.
>=20
> A customer decided to download the lib and libexec trees from -current,
> installed them over their 4.3 sources, in the correct place, and did make
> clean; make depend; make install on telnetd there.
>=20
> I know the patch had 14 modifications, I thought someone would be friendly
> enough to let me know if the above approach was fatally flawed.

Yes; don't mix and match sources from different branches.  That's
almost guaranteed to wrong, even more than if you took them from a
substantially different version of -stable.

Kris

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