On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Joachim Schipper wrote:

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> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:54:16AM +0100, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:46:26PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>>> This means everyone should have our latest patches installed.
>>
>>> *Solution/Vendor Information/Workaround*
>>>
>>>  The OpenBSD team has released a "security fix" to correct the mbuf
>>>  problem, it is available as a source code patch for OpenBSD 4.0
>>>  and 3.9 here:
>>>
>>>  ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.0/common/010_m_dup1.patch
>>>
>>>  The patch can also be applied to previous versions of OpenBSD.
>>
>> Is it possible to fix OpenBSD 4.0 system without compiling anything, by e. g.
>> somehow rewriting the file that contains the kernel? I have never compiled
>> OpenBSD, ports etc. and don't have time to study all the theory around OpenBSD
>> - I am sure if I attempt to recompile my system, I could easily screw it up
>> completely.
>
> Not really. Someone here could provide you with a kernel, but you'd have
> to trust that person not to put any backdoors in.
>
> Compiling -stable is not that difficult, really. It does require some
> disk space, but once you have sufficient space it's quite easy.
>
> 		Joachim
>
Joachim,
         This guy doesn't want to do anything, read docs, compile a kernel, 
compile the system etc. Perhaps he would be better off running something 
else?

John.