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Date:      Wed, 19 Feb 97 12:30:49 CST
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net>
To:        dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu (David E. Cross)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: another victim...
Message-ID:  <199702191830.MAA05788@solaria.sol.net>
In-Reply-To: <199702191745.MAA00748@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> from "David E. Cross" at Feb 19, 97 12:45:31 pm

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> > Running what version of FreeBSD?  Did you close the holes as mentioned
> > in the advisories, or were you complacent until it was too late? :-)
> 
> I am running 2.1.6-RELEASE.  The closing the holes was a combination of
> complacentcy, and the fact that to fix these holes you practically have to
> rebuild your entire system (it is the crt0.o/setlocale() hole).

Yes, that is the sucky thing about that particular problem.  :-(  OTOH, it
is not entirely unthinkable.  I would much rather have such a problem with
FreeBSD than with SunOS.  :-)

> BTW: what is the expected release date of 2.2 and 2.1.7?

2.1.7 should be "just around the corner".

... Joe

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