FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-16:06.bsnmpd

[Mark Felder]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016, at 04:04, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote:
> 
> V.   Solution
> 
> This vulnerability can be fixed by modifying the permission on
> /etc/bsnmpd.conf to owner root:wheel and permission 0600.
> 
> The patch is provided mainly for third party vendors who deploy FreeBSD
> and provide a safe default.  The patch itself DOES NOT fix the
> permissions
> for existing installations.
> 

Are we paranoid of breaking someone's special snowflake install, or is
freebsd-update unable to only do a permissions change?

-- 
  Mark Felder
  ports-secteam member
  feld at FreeBSD.org