docs/187465: mention patchlevels in explaining security advisories

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-bugs-local at be-well.ilk.org
Wed Mar 12 00:20:00 UTC 2014


>Number:         187465
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       mention patchlevels in explaining security advisories
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Mar 12 00:20:00 UTC 2014
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Lowell Gilbert
>Release:        FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE amd64
>Organization:
The Ilk
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD lowell-desk.lan 9.2-STABLE FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE #35 r262621: Fri Feb 28 16:57:11 EST 2014 root at lowell-desk.lan:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LOWELL64 amd64


	
>Description:

Someone asked for something like this.

	
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>Fix:


Index: handbook/security/chapter.xml
===================================================================
--- handbook/security/chapter.xml       (revision 44213)
+++ handbook/security/chapter.xml       (working copy)
@@ -3284,7 +3284,10 @@
        <callout arearefs="co-corrected">
          <para>The <literal>Corrected</literal> field indicates the
            date, time, time offset, and release that was
-           corrected.</para>
+           corrected. The section in parentheses shows each release
+           for which a fix has been announced, with the branch from
+           which that release came and the release identifier itself,
+           including patchlevel if appropriate.</para>
        </callout>
 
        <callout arearefs="co-cve">

	


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