On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Joachim Schipper wrote:
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
Joachim,
This guy doesn't want to do anything, read docs, compile a kernel,
compile the system etc. Perhaps he would be better off running something
else?
John.
