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<sect2 id="security">
<title>Security Advisories</title>
<para>A temporary file vulnerability in &man.texindex.1;, which
could allow a local attacker to overwrite files in the context
of a user running the &man.texindex.1; utility, has been fixed.
For more details see security advisory <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:01.texindex.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:01.texindex</ulink>.</para>
<para>A temporary file vulnerability in the &man.ee.1; text
editor, which could allow a local attacker to overwrite files in
the context of a user running &man.ee.1;, has been fixed. For
more details see security advisory <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:02.ee.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:02.ee</ulink>.</para>
<para>Several vulnerabilities in the &man.cpio.1; utility have
been corrected. For more
details see security advisory <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio</ulink>.</para>
<para>An error in &man.ipfw.4; IP fragment handling, which could
cause a crash, has been fixed. For more
details see security advisory <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:04.ipfw.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:04.ipfw</ulink>.</para>
<para>A potential buffer overflow in the IEEE 802.11 scanning code
has been corrected. For more
details see security advisory <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:05.80211.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:05.80211</ulink>.</para>
<para>Two instances in which portions of kernel memory could be
disclosed to users have been fixed. For more details see
security advisory <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:06.kmem.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:06.kmem</ulink>.</para>
<para>A logic bug in the IP fragment handling in &man.pf.4;, which
could cause a crash under certain circumstances, has been fixed.
For more details see security advisory <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:07.pf.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:07.pf</ulink>.</para>
<para>A logic bug in the NFS server code, which could cause a crash when
the server received a message with a zero-length payload, has been fixed.
For more details see security advisory <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:10.nfs.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:10.nfs</ulink>.</para>
<para>A programming error in the &man.fast.ipsec.4; implementation
results in the sequence number associated with a Security
Association not being updated, allowing packets to unconditionally
pass sequence number verification checks, has been fixed.
For more details see security advisory <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:11.ipsec.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:11.ipsec</ulink>.</para>
<para>A logic bug that could cause &man.opiepasswd.1; to allow an unprivileged
user to configure OPIE authentication for the root user under certain
circumstances, has been fixed.
For more details see security advisory <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:12.opie.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:12.opie</ulink>.</para>
<para>An asynchronous signal handling vulnerability in &man.sendmail.8;,
which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user running sendmail, typically root, has been fixed.
For more details see security advisory <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:13.sendmail.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:13.sendmail</ulink>.</para>
<para></para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="kernel">
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<sect3 id="proc">
<title>Hardware Support</title>
<para arch="i386,pc98">The &man.ce.4; driver has been added to
support Cronyx Tau32-PCI adapters.
</para>
<para></para>
<sect4 id="mm">
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<sect3>
<title>Contributed Software</title>
<para><application>BIND</application> has been updated from 9.3.1
to 9.3.2.</para>
<para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from
8.13.4 to 8.13.6.</para>
<para>The timezone database has been updated from the
<application>tzdata2005l</application> release to the
<application>tzdata2005r</application> release.</para>
<para></para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
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<sect2 id="releng">
<title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
<para>The supported version of
the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment
(<filename role="package">x11/gnome2</filename>) has been
updated from 2.10.2 to 2.12.3.</para>
<para>The supported version of
the <application>KDE</application> desktop environment
(<filename role="package">x11/kde2</filename>) has been
updated from 3.4.2 to 3.5.1.</para>
<para>The supported version of
the <application>Perl</application> interpreter
(<filename role="package">lang/perl5.8</filename>) has been updated
from 5.8.7 to 5.8.8.</para>
<para>The supported version of
the <application>&xorg;</application> windowing system
(<filename role="package">x11/xorg</filename>) has been updated
from 6.8.2 to 6.9.0.</para>
<para></para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="doc">