FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:08.realpath [REVISED]

[Jacques A. Vidrine]

[Follow-ups set to freebsd-security at .  Folks there might be around
 to help you, while I'm gone for the evening :-) ]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:40:29PM -0500, Chris Byrnes wrote:
> Sorry to bother you, but not sure what the problem is..
> 
> awww# fetch
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/patches/SA-03:08/realpath.patch
> Receiving realpath.patch (691 bytes): 100%
> 691 bytes transferred in 0.0 seconds (39.62 kBps)
> awww# patch < realpath.patch
> Hmm...  Looks like a new-style context diff to me...
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |Index: lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.c
> |===================================================================
> |RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.c,v
> |retrieving revision 1.9
> |diff -c -c -r1.9 realpath.c
> |*** lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.c 27 Jan 2000 23:06:50 -0000      1.9
> |--- lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.c 3 Aug 2003 17:21:20 -0000
> --------------------------
> Patching file lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.c using Plan A...
> Hunk #1 failed at 138.
> 1 out of 1 hunks failed--saving rejects to lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.c.rej
> done
> awww#
> 
> Any ideas?  Thank you for your help!

You did not indicate what version of FreeBSD you are attempting
to patch.  Is it one of the versions indicated as affected in the
advisory?  (copied here for your convenience)

> Affects:        All releases of FreeBSD up to and including 4.8-RELEASE
>                 and 5.0-RELEASE
>                 FreeBSD 4-STABLE prior to May 22 17:11:44 2003 UTC

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine   . NTT/Verio SME      . FreeBSD UNIX       . Heimdal
nectar at celabo.org . jvidrine at verio.net . nectar at freebsd.org . nectar at kth.se