I see archives, but.....?

2006-10-09 Thread Gary Kline
Gents, I see archives on "porting BSD to Debian" from May, 1999. There have been times when I thought porting the Free andor NetBSD *kernel* and mixing it with both the Berkeley and GNU utilities was DEAD. But, unless the archives are mostly spam, I was

Note about missing security support for kfreebsd-5

2006-10-09 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Hi, I noticed that kfreebsd-5 is in testing now. There won't be security support for the FreeBSD kernel until Debian-KFreeBSD is a fully functional, official port. Yet users may run into this error if it's included in the stable release. Please either a) have it removed from testing or b) place a p

Bug#391289: kfreebsd-5: several security issues in freebsd

2006-10-09 Thread Aurelien Jarno
I will update a new package this evening. Stefan Fritsch wrote: Package: kfreebsd-5 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole Some security issues have been found in FreeBSD that probably affect the Debian FreeBSD kernel: CVE-2006-4304: Buffer overflow in the sppp driv

Processed: lowering severity

2006-10-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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