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authorBruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-31 20:20:29 +0000
committerBruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-31 20:20:29 +0000
commit1e8b639eba1f66f14d7f244f25d40182204c486a (patch)
tree5a92cdf150bbd824d5d64e2af1ab39408094c0d5 /release
parent8510587725f9444b05cf3736dee57adf12366af7 (diff)
Notes
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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 e4bc989666df..94b56bae326c 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -343,6 +343,15 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:23.stdio.asc">FreeBSD-SA-02:23</ulink>.
</para>
+ <para>&new.461; The original fix for security advisory SA-02:23 (which
+ addressed the use of file descriptors by set-user-id or
+ set-group-id programs) contained an error. It was still
+ possible for systems using &man.procfs.5; or &man.linprocfs.5;
+ to be exploited. This error has now been corrected; a revised
+ version of security advisory <ulink
+ url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:23.stdio.asc">FreeBSD-SA-02:23</ulink>
+ contains more details.</para>
+
<para>Some unexpected behavior could be allowed with &man.k5su.8;
because it does not require that an invoking user be a member of
the <groupname>wheel</groupname> group when attempting to become
@@ -400,6 +409,12 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
For more information, see security advisory <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:32.pppd.asc">FreeBSD-SA-02:32</ulink>.</para>
+ <para>&new.461; Multiple buffer overflows in
+ <application>OpenSSL</application> have been corrected, by way
+ of an upgrade to the base system version of
+ <application>OpenSSL</application>. More details can be found
+ in security advisory <ulink
+ url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:33.openssl.asc">FreeBSD-SA-02:33</ulink>.</para>
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