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Date:      Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:36:51 -0400
From:      Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability
Message-ID:  <i85nko$p3j$1@dough.gmane.org>
References:  <20101001121332.5b04fa61@scorpio> <20101001171420.GE40148@dan.emsphone.com> <20101001165940.5d0e73f5@scorpio> <20101001210014.GD86640@eggman.experts-exchange.com> <20101001222316.00004e8c@unknown> <20101001174929.16d43ac1@scorpio>

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Jerry wrote:
[snip].
> 
> OK, I just updated my sources; however, this notation from the UPDATING
> file does NOT appear in the UPDATING file on my machine:
> 
> 20100920:	p1	FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2
> Fix an integer overflow in RLE length parsing when decompressing
> corrupt bzip2 data.
> 
> I am using this as the tag, which is probably incorrect.
> 
> default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8
> 
> This is the stock standard-supfile. The stock stable-supfile has the
> same tag.
> 

The security tag for a release version is either RELENG_8_0 or RELENG_8_1, 
depending on which one you run. UPDATING has the entry wrt to these.

-Mike





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