-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-EN-16:19.tzcode Errata Notice The FreeBSD Project Topic: Avoid warnings about valid time zone abbreviations Category: contrib Module: tzcode Announced: 2016-12-06 Credits: Baptiste Daroussin Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD Corrected: 2016-10-15 12:37:57 UTC (stable/11, 11.0-STABLE) 2016-12-05 23:17:05 UTC (releng/11.0, 11.0-RELEASE-p4) 2016-10-15 12:38:21 UTC (stable/10, 10.3-STABLE) 2016-12-05 23:13:16 UTC (releng/10.3, 10.3-RELEASE-p13) 2016-12-05 23:12:22 UTC (releng/10.2, 10.2-RELEASE-p26) 2016-12-05 23:09:54 UTC (releng/10.1, 10.1-RELEASE-p43) 2016-10-15 12:38:50 UTC (stable/9, 9.3-STABLE) 2016-12-05 22:43:24 UTC (releng/9.3, 9.3-RELEASE-p51) For general information regarding FreeBSD Errata Notices and Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit . I. Background The zic(8) utility reads text from the file(s) named on the command line and creates the time conversion information files specified in this input. The zdump(8) utility prints the current time in each zonename named on the command line. II. Problem Description Until 2000, timezone abbreviations starting with ':', and could not contain ',', '-', '+', NUL, or a digit for POSIX compatibility. In 2001, the POSIX compatibility rules changed, and timezone abbreviations can contain only '-', '+', and alphanumeric characters from the portable character set in the current locale. III. Impact This is needed to be able to update tzdata to a newer version. IV. Workaround No workaround is available, however systems configured to use Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) are not affected. V. Solution 1) Upgrade your system to a supported FreeBSD stable or release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date. 2) To update your system via a binary patch: Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the i386 or amd64 platforms can be updated via the freebsd-update(8) utility: # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install 3) To update your system via a source code patch: The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable FreeBSD release branches. a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the detached PGP signature using your PGP utility. # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/EN-16:19/tzcode.patch # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/EN-16:19/tzcode.patch.asc # gpg --verify tzcode.patch.asc b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root: # cd /usr/src # patch < /path/to/patch c) Recompile the operating system using buildworld and installworld as described in . VI. Correction details The following list contains the correction revision numbers for each affected branch. Branch/path Revision - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- stable/9/ r307360 releng/9.3/ r309567 stable/10/ r307359 releng/10.1/ r309570 releng/10.2/ r309571 releng/10.3/ r309572 stable/11/ r307358 releng/11.0/ r309573 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To see which files were modified by a particular revision, run the following command, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number, on a machine with Subversion installed: # svn diff -cNNNNNN --summarize svn://svn.freebsd.org/base Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number: VII. References The latest revision of this advisory is available at -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJYRw1nAAoJEO1n7NZdz2rnaowQAM/QDvH9LzIUfnydfZklBvPM vCF0M6aDsGZNONQCik/ZdyICZ8lws/DcVKG4cz3Fth8XRI0GYsFQPO1m1AJICdVX CH8bVmgFN0ajChezScYgXNG3qIlQKkeZK1dMaZwLkI02wtn9InqPW4vdecIUcegr cLK8ppPTB51iWZp0HGXcURzCJRy444l6KhFwfPJdB0dzjrBRkQZXP4ewW1hVuZMK /trACy5TzKahEzwbqtyNjC22Ou73rb39kH5XweGIx38WfyXeqh3mLwC1qny7PCcI 44V60ovwNyxzUHFFueriDeTeNp+rPkzn6MbjMbtJIhN4K3rO3ekw3KyR6lpZN0WI VM9Lvz0+vuTHjDuJqte/yiztyexj+aol7xOMv0Ak/0JlXigFwsOVqx0zHn6cHUey oB9cgNlmb8N51HRX0UiI6x/MJO5ZQm53LsD+YTr1y8iQDHtE2JJfnLj9v/rnFK/q cPqwxD1vYWQa9rnImFMdI6Ahix3LvSNQLQybWYgSkq+AH5Nbsqfl3CbJdE5ry7Xn bllPD5cbLTZVqA4hdGpptEAPFBiHgsExxPHswn1uvkMQEettVKb7hzNXkVF4p1GB CSq80neXh2GyvyA+G07I/7uNmFqzthnGQRsI0PJAItazZnwGlnyGDDtF7okpOkYO M70LiIMI27QIqMdiWfO5 =68Rp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----