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| author | Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-01-21 04:44:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-01-21 04:44:30 +0000 |
| commit | cd7892f5235291a0135785d39781a96ffbdb864b (patch) | |
| tree | c9f03e4c8cc124d63e2494eed7345a1388f2107a | |
| parent | 6ed973283de36ccb49e407fa56202f639b83b425 (diff) | |
Notes
| -rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 35 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml index ca3f0df87fcc..c3aac9fe0f9b 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ </sect1> <!-- - The "What's New" section of the release notes. + The "What's New" section of the release notes. Guidelines for new entries: @@ -92,8 +92,33 @@ <sect2 id="security"> <title>Security Advisories</title> - <para></para> + <para>A programming error in the FreeBSD Linux binary + compatibility which allows a local attacker to read + or write portions of the kernel memory has been fixed. + For more details, see security advisory + <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:13.linux.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:13.linux</ulink>.</para> + + <para>Various remotely-exploitable vulnerabilities of + <application>CVS</application>'s server mode including double-free, + integer overflow, and buffer overflow which can result + in information disclosure, denial-of-service, and/or possibly + arbitrary code execution, have been fixed via an upgrade + to <application>CVS</application> 1.11.17. + For more details, see security advisory + <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:14.cvs.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:14</ulink>.</para> + + <para>A bug in the &man.fetch.1; utility which allows + a malicious HTTP server to cause arbitrary portions of the client's + memory to be overwritten, has been fixed. + For more information, see security advisory + <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:16.fetch.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:16</ulink>.</para> + <para>A bug in &man.procfs.5; and &man.linprocfs.5; + which could cause a malicious local user could perform a local + denial of service attack by causing a system panic, or the user + could read parts of kernel memory, has been fixed. + For more information, see security advisory + <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:17.procfs.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:17</ulink>.</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="kernel"> @@ -117,7 +142,7 @@ <para arch="alpha">Support for the floppy interface is broken on DS10-class systems. The kernel probes the hardware correctly but - the floppy does not work properly. Booting and installing from + the floppy does not work properly. Booting and installing from floppies is not affected. </para> @@ -226,8 +251,8 @@ <sect2 id="contrib"> <title>Contributed Software</title> - <para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from - version 8.12.11 to version 8.13.1.</para> + <para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from + version 8.12.11 to version 8.13.1.</para> </sect2> |
