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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!chippy.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!news.visi.net!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Security fixes in 2.2.x and 2.1.7.x ? [Was: Has 2.2 been rushed ...] Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 10:39:19 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 16 Message-ID: <337FA137.2585@OntheNet.com.au> References: <tporczyk.862358549@shell3.ba.best.com> <5kfi0v$s03@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5kiot2$17q@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> <5l4vrb$16j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <33773e44.8341023@news.rmi.net> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: tjacobs@vaultbbs.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41121 Thomas R. Jacobs, Jr. wrote: > > I seem to have missed the start of this thread. So here is a question > that may have been answered above: Does 2.2.1-release have the same > security fixes that are in 2.1.7? While poking around in the > documentation on the web site, I don't recall seeing this > informatiion. Thanks! Yes, 2.2.1 and 2.1.7.1 had basically the same security fixes applied. Now there is a 2.2.2-RELEASE which has a few more "buffer overflow" type problems fixed, as well as a _BETTER_ Adaptec 2940/78xx driver. At least my machine with a 2940 is behaving somewhat better with a 4 GB Seagate Hawk disk. Previously, I couldn't 'dumpfs' or even 'dump' it because of an error half-way across the disk at the 2 GB point! Tony