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-version 1.186, 1999/07/18 02:27:07
+version 1.187, 1999/07/30 21:23:52
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  <li><h3><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font></h3>
  <ul>
+ <a name=chflags></a>
+ <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
+ Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
+ block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
+ <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/chflags.patch>
+ A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
+ <p>
+ <a name=nroff></a>
+ <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
+ Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
+ to avoid various groff features which may be security issues.  On the
+ whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
+ BUGTRAQ as if it is.
+ <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/nroff.patch>
+ A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
+ <p>
  <a name=fts></a>
  <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
  Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure