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authorBruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2005-04-26 14:45:56 +0000
committerBruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2005-04-26 14:45:56 +0000
commitcf2e0c761dc5d819bb1dbada0c74b3405b4e3e73 (patch)
treed52c069d1a0247b67fbda864a04f4532a45da877 /release
parent502b7b503dae2fea19d2cd420a321c9a6152a7df (diff)
MFC: SA-05:05.cvs, restore(8) reads FreeBSD 1 dumps, syslogd(8)
supports more characters in hostname specifications. Approved by: re (hrs)
Notes
svn path=/releng/5.4/; revision=145548
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml14
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
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 c74a101bc14b..3623f0537314 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -144,6 +144,12 @@
bytes of kernel memory, has been fixed. More details are in security advisory
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:04.ifconf.asc">FreeBSD-SA-05:04.ifconf</ulink>.</para>
+ <para>Several programming errors in &man.cvs.1;, which could
+ potentially cause arbitrary code to be executed on CVS servers,
+ have been corrected. Further information can be found in
+ security advisory
+ <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:05.cvs.asc">FreeBSD-SA-05:05.cvs</ulink>.</para>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 id="kernel">
@@ -504,6 +510,9 @@
which violates the Microsoft PPP Callback Control Protocol
section 3.2.</para>
+ <para>The &man.restore.8; utility has regained the ability to read
+ &os; version 1 dump tapes.</para>
+
<para>The &man.rm.1; utility now supports an <option>-I</option>
option that asks for confirmation (once) if recursively
removing directories or if more than 3 files are listed in the
@@ -529,6 +538,11 @@
run out of buffer space due to a
local denial-of-service attack.</para>
+ <para>The &man.syslogd.8; utility now allows
+ <literal>:</literal> and <literal>%</literal>
+ characters in the hostname specifications.
+ These characters are used in IPv6 addresses and scope IDs.</para>
+
<para>The &man.systat.1; <option>-netstat</option> display is now
IPv6-aware.<para>