Once upon a time, John Oliver <[email protected]> said:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 02:16:12PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> > Once upon a time, John Oliver <[email protected]> said:
> > > ...will the following issues be addressed in RHEL5?
> > 
> > Since these bugs are all filed against Fedora, I'd say never.  Have you
> > opened support cases against RHEL?
> 
> Not sure how I would be expected to know that... the URL gives no
> indication, the issues are equally applicalble to RHEL as well as
> Fedora, and the only place the word "[Ff]edora" appears is in comments.

That's because you jumped into the middle of a site.  The front page of
bugzilla.redhat.com tells you (I don't expect them to burden every page
with a disclaimer).

> > However:
> > 
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476671
> > 
> > Fixed Tue Dec 16 2008 in openssl-0.9.8e-7.
> > 
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-0005
> > 
> > Fixed Mon Jan 07 2008 in httpd-2.2.3-11.el5_1.1.
> 
> Neither page refers to those fixes.  I'm sure that there is errata that
> gives that info, but since it isn't referred to on those bugzilla
> pages...

Again, because those bugs were used by Fedora, not RHEL.

> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-0002
> > 
> > In the report:
> > 
> >    Versions Affected:
> >    Tomcat 6.0.5 to 6.0.15
> > 
> > RHEL 5 ships tomcat5-5.5.23 so appears not affected.
> 
> That page specifically mentions:
> 
> Fixed In Version:     5.5.26-1jpp.1 

Fedora package 5.5.26-1jpp.1, not RHEL.

> That implies that 5.5.23 would still be vulnerable.  Same point as
> above... the bugzilla page does not help me find an answer.

Because it is not for RHEL.

> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-1232
> > 
> > Fixed Fri Aug 22 2008 in tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.7.
> > 
> > I suggest next time RTFM before complaining.
> 
> It would help if TFM had anything to read about the issue at hand :-)

TFM for RHEL is www.redhat.com and rhn.redhat.com (per the RHEL
documentation and KB), not bugzilla.redhat.com.

Are you assuming that *.redhat.com == RHEL?  That is not a valid
assumption.
-- 
Chris Adams <[email protected]>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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