From 58bc3f49ab79a111bf0a53944c8b052197e24ac9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bruce A. Mah" Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 03:10:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] New release notes: TCP default sendspace/recvspace increases, mail(1) -E, SA-01:48. --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 11 +++++++++++ release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 11 +++++++++++ 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index c5453b26f361..8d797e6ce629 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -438,6 +438,11 @@ should reduce the buffer usage on large systems handling many connections. &merged; + TCP's default buffer sizes, controlled by the + net.inet.tcp.sendspace and + net.inet.tcp.recvspace sysctl variables, have + been increased to 32K and 64K respectively. + A new sysctl net.inet.ip.check_interface, which is on by default, causes IP to verify that an incoming packet arrives on an interface that has an address matching the @@ -941,6 +946,9 @@ an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of a setuid binary. This flaw has been corrected (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:42). &merged; + + A remote buffer overflow in &man.tcpdump.1; has been fixed + (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:48). &merged; Userland Changes @@ -1631,6 +1639,9 @@ instead tries to figure out the default device name from the root device. + &man.mail.1; now takes a flag to avoid + sending messages with empty bodies. &merged; + Contributed Software 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 c5453b26f361..8d797e6ce629 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -438,6 +438,11 @@ should reduce the buffer usage on large systems handling many connections. &merged; + TCP's default buffer sizes, controlled by the + net.inet.tcp.sendspace and + net.inet.tcp.recvspace sysctl variables, have + been increased to 32K and 64K respectively. + A new sysctl net.inet.ip.check_interface, which is on by default, causes IP to verify that an incoming packet arrives on an interface that has an address matching the @@ -941,6 +946,9 @@ an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of a setuid binary. This flaw has been corrected (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:42). &merged; + + A remote buffer overflow in &man.tcpdump.1; has been fixed + (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:48). &merged; Userland Changes @@ -1631,6 +1639,9 @@ instead tries to figure out the default device name from the root device. + &man.mail.1; now takes a flag to avoid + sending messages with empty bodies. &merged; + Contributed Software