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All, Given the amount of NULL-pointer dereference vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD kernel that have been discovered of late, I've started looking at a way to generically protect against the code execution possibilities of such bugs. By disallowing userland to map pages at address 0x0 (and a bit beyond), it is possible to make such NULL-pointer deref bugs mere DoS'es instead of code

Gang, For months now, we're all seeing repeated bruteforce attempts on SSH. I've configured my pf install to ratelimit TCP connections to port 22 and to automatically add IP-addresses that connect too fast to a table that's filtered: table <lamers> { } block quick from <lamers> to any pass in quick on $ext_if inet proto tcp from any to ($ext_if) port 22 modulate