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By now, we're sure most everyone have heard of the Meltdown and Spectre attacks. If not, head over to https://meltdownattack.com/ and get an overview. Additional technical details are available from Google Project Zero. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html The FreeBSD Security Team was notified of the issue in late December and received a

By now, we're sure most everyone have heard of the Meltdown and Spectre attacks. If not, head over to https://meltdownattack.com/ and get an overview. Additional technical details are available from Google Project Zero. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html The FreeBSD Security Team was notified of the issue in late December and received a

...Version: 2.6.9 Platform: x86 URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~gordon/rsync-socket.diff OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org ReportedBy: gordon@tetlows.org QAContact: rsync-qa@samba.org rsync 2.6.9 (and from the looks of it 3.0.0) attempts to set socket options (either via --sockopts or the rsyncd.conf socket options conf statement) after the socket was listen()ed or connect()ed. Specifically, I was trying to use SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBU...

Navigation Bar March-September 2003 Status Report Introduction: The FreeBSD Bi-monthly status reports are back! In this edition, we catch up on seven highly productive months and look forward to the end of 2003. As always, the FreeBSD development crew has been hard at work. Support for the AMD64 platform quickly sprang up and is nearly complete.