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Dear FreeBSD users, Slightly more than three years ago, I released FreeBSD Update, my first major contribution to FreeBSD. Since then, I have become a FreeBSD committer, joined the FreeBSD Security Team, released Portsnap, and become the FreeBSD Security Officer. However, as I have gone from being a graduate student at Oxford University -- busy writing my thesis -- to a researcher at Simon

Hello Everyone! It has been my pleasure and privilege to serve as the FreeBSD Security Officer for the past 3+ years. With the crucial support of the FreeBSD Security Team members, a lot has been accomplished: hundreds of security issues have been researched and tracked, with some resulting in security advisories and patches; software in the Ports Collection are updated more quickly

or "How do I know my copy of FreeBSD is the same as yours?" I have recently been meditating on the issue of validating X.509 root certificates. An obvious extension to that is validating FreeBSD itself. Under "The Cutting Edge", the handbook lists 3 methods of synchronising your personal copy of FreeBSD with the Project's copy: Anonymous CVS, CTM and CVSup. There are

Hi. I am looking for an IPv6 capable CVSUP mirror. I found a discussion from one year ago where it was stated that CVSUP was not IPv6-capable. Does anyone know if this has changed? Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/sam

The FreeBSD Security Officer would normally be sending out this email, but he's a bit busy right now and it is clear from reactions to FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp that many people are unaware of the current status of the RELENG_5_1 branch, so I'm going to send out this reminder myself. The branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer have been updated to reflect

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-06:01.texindex Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Texindex temporary file privilege escalation Category: contrib Module: texinfo

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-03:08.realpath Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Single byte buffer overflow in realpath(3) Category: core Module: libc Announced:

On the advisory about the realpath problem it says that it was corrected: RELENG_4_8 src/UPDATING 1.73.2.80.2.3 src/lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.c 1.9.14.1 src/sys/conf/newvers.sh 1.44.2.29.2.2 I ran cvsup and when I look at my src/lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.c I see

In the next month or two I've got to upgrade a number of servers that are currently on an EOL'd version of 4-STABLE. I foresee that I'll have very limited time to do full OS upgrades on these systems in the coming several years, so I want to make sure I bring them onto an extended-life branch. Right now 4.11 has the furthest projected EOL date (Jan 31 2007), and the projected EOL

At the end of March, the RELENG_4_8 (sometimes called 4.8-SECURITY) branch will reach its designated End of Life and cease to be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Released in April 2003, FreeBSD 4.8 was the first release designated for "extended" two-year security support instead of the normal one-year support. Over this time, 27 security advisories have been issued which have

How 'bout PAM? /usr/ports/security/pam_ldap. If you have machines that can't do PAM, perhaps NIS is the way to go (assuming, of course, you're behind a firewall). You can store login information in LDAP like you want, then use a home-grown script to extract the information to a NIS map. Or, if you have a Solaris 8 machine lying around, you can cut out the middle step and use

Hi guys, Does anybody know if freebsd-update is going to be available for 6.1-RELEASE before the end of Colin's "summer of FreeBSD work"? I wouldn't like to bother Colin directly via e-mail, so if anyone already asked for this or something.... Thanx, regards -- Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com>

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-04:12.jailroute Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Jailed processes can manipulate host routing tables Category: core Module: kernel

Hello.. I've noticed a delay between when the security advisories are sent and when the cvsup servers, ftp mirrors and web mirrors are updated. Is this delay on purpose to give the users some time to update/patch their system(s) before it hit pages like bugtraq, etc.. or is it just a caused by the delay between when the ftp/cvsup servers are synced? Best regard, Jesper Wallin

Hello, I am very new to FreeBSD and just installed 4.8 release. I want to upgrade this to stable. I have printed some of the pages out for makeworld and CVSUP, I am wondering what the best method for doing the updates are, downloading the individual packages and installing or using the CVSUP to do this? Currently I used mostly Red Hat Linux but have wanted to give this a try for some time

I have done a cvsup of the openssh port. It builds correctly, but refuses to install with the following: ===> Installing for openssh-3.6.1_5 ===> openssh-3.6.1_5 conflicts with installed package(s): ssh2-3.2.9.1_1 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/security/openssh. I was unable to

This affects only 3.7p1 and 3.7.1p1. The advice to leave PAM disabled is far from heartening, nor is the semi-lame blaming the PAM spec for implementation bugs. I happen to like OPIE for remote access. Subject: Portable OpenSSH Security Advisory: sshpam.adv This document can be found at: http://www.openssh.com/txt/sshpam.adv 1. Versions affected: Portable OpenSSH versions 3.7p1

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-04:10.cvs Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: CVS pserver protocol parser errors Category: contrib Module: contrib_cvs Announced:

There's been an ongoing discussion (started by Colin Percival's recent work on nologin) about environment-poisoning attacks via "login -p". I thought I saw a way to address this, but the more I learn, the uglier this looks. Maybe some of the good folks who read freebsd-security can puzzle this one out: Problem: login -p can be used to propagate environment flags in order to

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm wondering if/where I can get the server side component for freebsd-update. Presumably such a component would build and sign the binary patches and prepare them to be served via HTTP to the freebsd-update client. I need a system for distributing binary updates to a collection of customized FreeBSD machines, jails, and embedded systems.