Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] xfree security release
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 22:11:14
Message-Id: 1076364624.20755.8.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-releng] snapshot info[Message Scanned] by John Davis
1 On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 16:47, John Davis wrote:
2 > If you have started your release cycle already, please note that you do
3 > not have to start from scratch. Make your snapshot, but keep in mind
4 > that you do not have to rebuild everything (unless, of course, there are
5 > some bugs that you need to fix).
6
7 On this note, if at all possible/realistic please get xfree-4.3.0-r4
8 instead of 4.3.0-r3 into your snapshots as the stable xfree for GRP,
9 etc. It contains at least one security fix for an exploitable buffer
10 overflow.
11
12 It's currently stable on every arch but alpha, and agriffis is testing
13 there.
14
15 Thanks,
16 Donnie

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