similar to: 5.3 SMP kernels now available via FreeBSD Update

It sounds like the SMP kernel I provided for FreeBSD 5.3 was quite popular, so I've started building an SMP kernel for FreeBSD 5.4 as well, in addition to the usual GENERIC kernel. To take advantage of this on your FreeBSD 5.4 SMP system, run the following commands as root: # touch /boot/kernel/SMP # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install # echo 'bootfile="SMP"'

freebsd-security-request@freebsd.org wrote: > Send freebsd-security mailing list submissions to > freebsd-security@freebsd.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > freebsd-security-request@freebsd.org > > You

Hello Everyone, The branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer have been updated to reflect recent EoL (end-of-life) events. The new list is below (and should appear at <URL: http://www.freebsd.org/security/ > soon). FreeBSD 4.7 has `expired', but I have extended the EoL date for FreeBSD 5.1. If you are running FreeBSD 4.7 or older and you wish to be certain to get critical

> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 07:34:28 -0700 > From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> > Subject: Re: Is the server portion of freebsd-update open source? > To: markzero <mark@darklogik.org> > Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <43638874.2020004@freebsd.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > markzero wrote: > > No this

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On June 1st, 21 days from now, FreeBSD 4.10 will have reached its two year End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. While some security fixes may be merged to the RELENG_4_10 security branch after the EoL date, the Security Team will only investigate new issues if they affect supported branches;

Well, I *tried* to CC: freebsd-security... I'm forwarding this to get around the "posting from wrong address" filter. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: FW:FreeBSD hiding security stuff Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 04:42:48 -0800 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Jonathan Weiss <tomonage2@gmx.de> CC: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-Hackers

The mailing list detained my email because I posted from the wrong address... hoepfully it will get through this time. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Fwd: FreeBSD hiding security stuff Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 05:35:32 -0800 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Devon H. O'Dell <dodell@sitetronics.com> CC: mike@sentex.net, freebsd-security@freebsd.org,

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, The branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer have been updated to reflect the EoL (end-of-life) of FreeBSD 6.3. The new list is below and at <URL: http://security.freebsd.org/ >. Users of FreeBSD 6.3 are advised to upgrade promptly to a newer release, either by downloading an updated source tree and building updates

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, The branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer have been updated to reflect the EoL (end-of-life) of FreeBSD 6.3. The new list is below and at <URL: http://security.freebsd.org/ >. Users of FreeBSD 6.3 are advised to upgrade promptly to a newer release, either by downloading an updated source tree and building updates

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-04:16.fetch Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Overflow error in fetch Category: core Module: fetch Announced: 2004-11-18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-04:16.fetch Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Overflow error in fetch Category: core Module: fetch Announced: 2004-11-18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Errors handling corrupt tar files in libarchive(3) Category: core Module: libarchive

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Errors handling corrupt tar files in libarchive(3) Category: core Module: libarchive

Bill Moran wrote: > Can anyone define "exceptionally large" as noted in this statement?: > > "NOTE ALSO: The above patch reduces the functionality of libcrypto(3) by > prohibiting the use of exceptionally large public keys. It is believed > that no existing applications legitimately use such key lengths as would > be affected by this change." > > It

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: information disclosure when using HTT Category: core Module: sys Announced:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: information disclosure when using HTT Category: core Module: sys Announced:

CVSup is slow, insecure, and a memory hog. However, until now it's been the only option for keeping an up-to-date ports tree, and (thanks to all of the recent work on vuxml and portaudit) it has become quite obvious that keeping an up-to-date ports tree is very important. To provide a secure, lightweight, and fast alternative to CVSup, I've written portsnap. As the name suggests, this

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: information disclosure when using HTT Category: core Module: sys Announced:

Hello Everyone, In light of the longer-than-expected window between 6.2-RELEASE and 6.2-RELEASE, the End-of-Life date for FreeBSD 6.2 has been adjusted from January 31st, 2008 to May 31st, 2008. As a result, FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, and FreeBSD 6.2 will all cease to be supported at the end of May 2008. FreeBSD users should plan on upgrading to either FreeBSD 6.3 or FreeBSD 7.0 once those have

Hello Everyone, In light of the longer-than-expected window between 6.2-RELEASE and 6.2-RELEASE, the End-of-Life date for FreeBSD 6.2 has been adjusted from January 31st, 2008 to May 31st, 2008. As a result, FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, and FreeBSD 6.2 will all cease to be supported at the end of May 2008. FreeBSD users should plan on upgrading to either FreeBSD 6.3 or FreeBSD 7.0 once those have