Hi,

How are security issues in "upstream" software like the FreeBSD kernel
handled by the pfSense project?  In the particular case of
FreeBSD-SA-07:09.random, I have two questions:

- What parts of pfSense are affected by the bug?  I realize that this
  might be a big question.

- How should I do to get it fixed?  I'm running the embedded image.

  I can see that rolling my own image would do it.  Last time I looked
  that didn't look exactly like a walk in the park though.  Any pointers
  to info about it are appreciated.

  I could use a snapshot, like
  http://snapshots.pfsense.com/FreeBSD6/RELENG_1_2/embedded/pfSense.img.gz,
  but how can I know if it includes some particular fix?  In this case,
  it seems like I could download it, unpack it and
  gzip -cd boot/kernel/kernel.gz | strings | egrep FreeBSD.\*RELEASE
  to verify that it's really 6.2-RELEASE-p9 but how do I handle the
  general case where it's not the kernel that needs fixing?

Thanks,
-- 
Linus


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