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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-05-20 22:17:18 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-05-20 22:17:18 +0000
commitbc3fedefebd20a144beab4a91355b2298723c40a (patch)
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parentf20545d47c5fccce9e5cfe9ab6ec571bb10b36e5 (diff)
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New release notes: SA-02:24, SA-02:25.
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 686c736..4af9079 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -1768,6 +1768,25 @@ 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>.
&merged;</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
+ the superuser (this is the case with &man.su.1;). To avoid this
+ situation, &man.k5su.8; is now installed non-SUID by default
+ (effectively disabling it). More information can be found in
+ security advisory <ulink
+ url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:24.k5su.asc">FreeBSD-SA-02:24</ulink>.
+ &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>Multiple vulnerabilities were found in the &man.bzip2.1;
+ utility, which could allow files to be overwritten without
+ warning or allow local users unintended access to files. These
+ problems have been corrected with a new import of
+ <application>bzip2</application>. For more information, see
+ security advisory <ulink
+ url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:25.bzip2.asc">FreeBSD-SA-02:25</ulink>.
+ &merged; </para>
+
<para>A bug has been fixed in the implementation of the TCP SYN
cache (<quote>syncache</quote>), which could allow a remote
attacker to deny access to a service when accept filters
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 686c736..4af9079 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -1768,6 +1768,25 @@ 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>.
&merged;</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
+ the superuser (this is the case with &man.su.1;). To avoid this
+ situation, &man.k5su.8; is now installed non-SUID by default
+ (effectively disabling it). More information can be found in
+ security advisory <ulink
+ url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:24.k5su.asc">FreeBSD-SA-02:24</ulink>.
+ &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>Multiple vulnerabilities were found in the &man.bzip2.1;
+ utility, which could allow files to be overwritten without
+ warning or allow local users unintended access to files. These
+ problems have been corrected with a new import of
+ <application>bzip2</application>. For more information, see
+ security advisory <ulink
+ url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:25.bzip2.asc">FreeBSD-SA-02:25</ulink>.
+ &merged; </para>
+
<para>A bug has been fixed in the implementation of the TCP SYN
cache (<quote>syncache</quote>), which could allow a remote
attacker to deny access to a service when accept filters
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