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Date:      Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:18:20 +0800
From:      Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net>
To:        Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>
Cc:        Volker Stolz <vs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: multiple vulnerabilities in the cvs server code
Message-ID:  <20040914141820.GA1728@frontfree.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040914162407.J77824@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua>
References:  <20040909133319.A41151@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <20040914131723.GA63705@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <20040914162407.J77824@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua>

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On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 04:37:10PM +0300, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:
>  As I read in this SA, this vulnerability was fixed on 2004-05-20, before
> 4.10 was released, so 4.10-RELEASE isn't vulnerable, right? But portaudit

Yes, 4.10 is not vulnerable.

> still complains about FreeBSD-491000. Probably, wrong check in auditfile?
> Also, it would be nice if such an advisories advance kern.osreldate,
> so auditfile could check this automatically; e.g., I have 4.9-RELEASE-p11=
,=20
> which isn't vulnerable to this problem, but kern.osreldate is still 49000=
0=20
> there. If Security Officer bumps src/sys/conf/newvers.sh, why he doesn't=
=20
> bump src/sys/sys/param.h?

I think it is not applicable to bump param.h, as it represents an ABI chang=
e,
which a security update should not introduce.  (just my $0.02 :-)


Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij frontfree net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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