FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE Errata

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This document lists errata items for FreeBSD 4.8-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.
+ discovered after the release or too late in the release + cycle to be otherwise included in the release + documentation. 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 4.8-RELEASE will be maintained until the release of FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE.

1 Introduction

This errata document contains ``late-breaking news'' about FreeBSD 4.8-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version of this errata document actually distributed with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on the Internet and should be consulted as the ``current errata'' for this release.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/.

2 Security Advisories

No active security advisories.

A buffer overflow in header parsing exists in older + versions of sendmail. It could + allow a remote attacker to create a specially-crafted + message that may cause + sendmail(8) to + execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user + running it, typically root. More + information, including pointers to patches, can be found in + security advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:07. This problem was + corrected for FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE with a vendor patch and + was corrected for FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE with the import of a + new version of sendmail. + However, these changes may not otherwise have been noted in + the release documentation.

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3 Late-Breaking News
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No news.
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Some parts of the documentation may incorrectly give the + release date of FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE as March 2003, rather + than April 2003.
+ +
FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE restores the ability to install from + the installation media to a + mly(4) device. + (This capability was broken in FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE.)
+ +
After installing GNOME, the + default terminal font might be garbled. If this is the + case, install the `x11-fonts/bitstream-vera` port, then + restart GNOME. The new fonts + should take effect automatically. If they do not, edit your + current gnome-terminal profile, and select the Bitstream + Vera Sans Mono font.
+ +
Due to space limitations, the + awi(4) driver has + been removed from the kernel used on the 1.44MB `kern.flp` i386 boot floppy. Because no + module is available for this driver in FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE, + this means that it is generally not possible to install + FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE over an + awi(4) network.

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