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This document lists errata items for FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE, containing significant information discovered after the release. This information includes security advisories, as well as news relating to the software or documentation that could affect its operation or usability. An up-to-date version of this document should always be consulted before installing this version of FreeBSD.
This errata document for FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE will be maintained until the release of FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE.
This errata document contains ``late-breaking news'' about FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. Before installing this version, it is important to consult this document to learn about any post-release discoveries or problems that may already have been found and fixed.
Any version of this errata document actually distributed with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on the Internet and should be consulted as the ``current errata'' for this release. These other copies of the errata are located at http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/, plus any sites which keep up-to-date mirrors of this location.
Source and binary snapshots of FreeBSD 4-STABLE also contain up-to-date copies of this document (as of the time of the snapshot).
For a list of all FreeBSD CERT security advisories, see http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/ or ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/.
No active security advisories.
+Buffer overflows in kadmind(8) and k5admin could + potentially cause the administrative server to execute + arbitrary code. Bugfix and workaround information can be + found in security advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:40.
+ +Errors in + smrsh(8), which could + allow users to circumvent restrictions on what programs can + be executed, were fixed in FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. Because the + applicable security (FreeBSD-SA-02:41) was not issued after + the release, this fact was not included in the release + notes.
+ +Buffer overflows in the DNS + resolver(3), which could + cause some applications to fail, have been corrected. This + change was not mentioned in the release notes, as the + applicable security advisory (FreeBSD-SA-02:42) was not issued until + after the release.
Due to licensing issues uncovered late in FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE's release cycle, the matcd(4) driver was removed.
The srelease distribution contains object files for sysinstall(8) in the release/sysinstall directory. These files were generated during the release building process but, for some reason, were not removed from the distribution files. They are harmless.
The databases/rdfdb and mail/ssmtp packages included in the 4.7-RELEASE package set cannot be installed correctly. A workaround is to build and install these programs using the Ports Collection.
The net/gnomeicu package included in the 4.7-RELEASE package set may not run correctly, due to a missing dependency on the net/gnet package. To work around this problem, install net/gnet either from a package or the Ports Collection, preferably before installing net/gnomeicu.
The release notes for FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE incorrectly stated that the -J option to xargs(1) is deprecated. In fact, there are no plans to remove this option.
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