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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2001-04-17 19:22:07 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2001-04-17 19:22:07 +0000
commitb141e422b66f8f9a301377879b8ea7d808838bc8 (patch)
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Update for security advisories: 01:32 (ipfilter), 01:33 (glob/ftp).
New release notes: TCP ISS randomization, groff-1.17.
Diffstat (limited to 'release/texts')
-rw-r--r--release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT18
-rw-r--r--release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT18
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT
index 4f3857b..ad720a9 100644
--- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT
+++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT
@@ -453,10 +453,6 @@ A bug in rwhod(8), which caused it to crash if sent certain malformed
packets, has been corrected (see security advisory
FreeBSD-SA-01:29). [MERGED]
-To prevent some forms of DOS attacks, glob(3) allows specification of
-a limit on the number of pathname matches it will return. ftpd(8) now
-uses this feature. [MERGED]
-
A security hole in FreeBSD's FFS and EXT2FS implementations, which
allowed a race condition that could cause users to have unauthorized
access to data, has been fixed (see security advisory
@@ -465,7 +461,16 @@ FreeBSD-SA-01:30). [MERGED]
A remotely-exploitable vulnerability in ntpd(8) has been closed (see
security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:31). [MERGED]
-A security hole in IPFilter's fragment cache has been closed. [MERGED]
+A security hole in IPFilter's fragment cache has been closed (see
+security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:32). [MERGED]
+
+Buffer overflows in glob(3), which could cause arbitrary code to be
+run on an FTP server, have been closed. In addition, to prevent some
+forms of DOS attacks, glob(3) now allows specification of a limit on
+the number of pathname matches it will return. ftpd(8) now uses this
+feature (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:33). [MERGED]
+
+Initial sequence numbers in TCP are more thoroughly randomized.
1.3. USERLAND CHANGES
@@ -748,7 +753,8 @@ dependencies.
top(1) will now use the full width of its tty.
groff(1) and its related utilities have been updated to FSF version
-1.16.1. [MERGED]
+1.17. This import brings in a new mdoc(7) macro package, which
+removes many of the limitations of its predecessor.
A number of cleanups and enhancements have been applied to the PCI
subsystem. /usr/share/misc/pci_vendors now contains a vendor/device
diff --git a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT
index 007d76e..3008f27 100644
--- a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT
+++ b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT
@@ -528,10 +528,6 @@ A bug in rwhod(8), which caused it to crash if sent certain malformed
packets, has been corrected (see security advisory
FreeBSD-SA-01:29). [MERGED]
-To prevent some forms of DOS attacks, glob(3) allows specification of
-a limit on the number of pathname matches it will return. ftpd(8) now
-uses this feature. [MERGED]
-
A security hole in FreeBSD's FFS and EXT2FS implementations, which
allowed a race condition that could cause users to have unauthorized
access to data, has been fixed (see security advisory
@@ -540,7 +536,16 @@ FreeBSD-SA-01:30). [MERGED]
A remotely-exploitable vulnerability in ntpd(8) has been closed (see
security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:31). [MERGED]
-A security hole in IPFilter's fragment cache has been closed. [MERGED]
+A security hole in IPFilter's fragment cache has been closed (see
+security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:32). [MERGED]
+
+Buffer overflows in glob(3), which could cause arbitrary code to be
+run on an FTP server, have been closed. In addition, to prevent some
+forms of DOS attacks, glob(3) now allows specification of a limit on
+the number of pathname matches it will return. ftpd(8) now uses this
+feature (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:33). [MERGED]
+
+Initial sequence numbers in TCP are more thoroughly randomized.
1.3. USERLAND CHANGES
@@ -842,7 +847,8 @@ dependencies.
top(1) will now use the full width of its tty.
groff(1) and its related utilities have been updated to FSF version
-1.16.1. [MERGED]
+1.17. This import brings in a new mdoc(7) macro package, which
+removes many of the limitations of its predecessor.
growfs(8), a utility for growing FFS filesystems, has been added.
ffsinfo(8), a utility for dump all the meta-information of an existing
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