On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:54:16AM +0100, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:46:26PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > This means everyone should have our latest patches installed.
>
> > *Solution/Vendor Information/Workaround*
> >
> > The OpenBSD team has released a "security fix" to correct the mbuf
> > problem, it is available as a source code patch for OpenBSD 4.0
> > and 3.9 here:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.0/common/010_m_dup1.patch
> >
> > The patch can also be applied to previous versions of OpenBSD.
>
> Is it possible to fix OpenBSD 4.0 system without compiling anything, by e. g.
> somehow rewriting the file that contains the kernel? I have never compiled
> OpenBSD, ports etc. and don't have time to study all the theory around OpenBSD
> - I am sure if I attempt to recompile my system, I could easily screw it up
> completely.
Not really. Someone here could provide you with a kernel, but you'd have
to trust that person not to put any backdoors in.
Compiling -stable is not that difficult, really. It does require some
disk space, but once you have sufficient space it's quite easy.
Joachim
