From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14846 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Sep 2007 14:25:21 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME,SPF_PASS,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lists.gnu.org (HELO lists.gnu.org) (199.232.76.165) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:25:17 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZoeU-0000yJ-4P for listarch-gnats-announce@sources.redhat.com; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:11:10 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IZocp-0000xq-6t for info-gnats@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:09:27 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IZoci-0000vM-Nc for info-gnats@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:09:26 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZoci-0000vJ-Kx for info-gnats@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:09:20 -0400 Received: from skuld.wookimus.net ([216.243.175.157]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IZoch-0002hA-TV for info-gnats@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:09:20 -0400 Received: from skuld.wookimus.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skuld-10025.wookimus.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 222273C05C for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:09:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from skuld.wookimus.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by skuld.wookimus.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9D5E3C03B for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:09:55 +0000 (UTC) From: Chad Walstrom To: info-gnats@gnu.org X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0.3; nmh 1.2; GNU Emacs 22.1.2 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:25:00 -0000 Message-Id: <20070924140955.C9D5E3C03B@skuld.wookimus.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) Subject: Alpha Release 4.1.999 X-BeenThere: info-gnats@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNU GNATS announcements List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: info-gnats-bounces+listarch-gnats-announce=sources.redhat.com@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnats-bounces+listarch-gnats-announce=sources.redhat.com@gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2007/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 An alpha release of GNATS has been uploaded to ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnats. The GNATS team is working on releasing 4.2 and would like your help ironing out the bugs. >From the NEWS file: GNATS 4.1.999 (Pre-release-candidate), September 2007 ===================================================== Version 4.1.999 is an alpha release that contains many bug-fixes release and copyright license upgrade to GNU General Public License v3 and GNU Library General Public Library v3. It includes the vulnerabilities fixes intended to be released in August 2005. A Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures candidate [CAN-2005-2180] was reported for a local security exploit over the misuse of setuid binaries for manipulating local databases. The Makefiles have been altered to discontinue using the setuid bit. The suggested manner in which to use a local database is to use an unprivileged user in combination with sudo, or to create a dedicated filesystem group to which you add your "responsible" team members. Alternatively, you could operate exclusively through the network interface. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2180 Since GNATS 4.0.0, there has been trouble trying to build the software on Solaris machines. This has now been fixed. -- Chad Walstrom http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */ _______________________________________________ Info-gnats mailing list Info-gnats@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnats