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Update for security advisories: 01:32 (ipfilter), 01:33 (glob/ftp).

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New release notes:  TCP ISS randomization, groff-1.17.
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Bruce A. Mah 2001-04-17 19:22:07 +00:00
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Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00 
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@ -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

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release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT
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@ -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