similar to: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 7.2 EoL coming soon

-----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 Hello Everyone, On April 30th, FreeBSD 7.0 will reach its End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of FreeBSD 7.0 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.1 before that date. Note that the End of Life date for FreeBSD 7.0 was originally announced as being February 28, but was delayed by two months in

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On April 30th, FreeBSD 7.0 will reach its End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of FreeBSD 7.0 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.1 before that date. Note that the End of Life date for FreeBSD 7.0 was originally announced as being February 28, but was delayed by two months in

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-10:03.zfs Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: ZFS ZIL playback with insecure permissions Category: contrib Module: zfs Announced:

-----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 7.2. The new list is below and at <URL: http://security.freebsd.org/ >. Users of FreeBSD 7.2 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 7.2. The new list is below and at <URL: http://security.freebsd.org/ >. Users of FreeBSD 7.2 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, In keeping with the FreeBSD Security Team policy concerning the EoL dates for "Normal" support releases, "a minimum of 12 months after the release, and for sufficient additional time (if needed) to ensure that there is a newer release for at least 3 months before the older Normal release expires" the EoL date

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, In keeping with the FreeBSD Security Team policy concerning the EoL dates for "Normal" support releases, "a minimum of 12 months after the release, and for sufficient additional time (if needed) to ensure that there is a newer release for at least 3 months before the older Normal release expires" the EoL date

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On May 31st, FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, and FreeBSD 6.2 will have reached their End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Since FreeBSD 5.5 is the last remaining supported release from the FreeBSD 5.x stable branch, support for the FreeBSD 5.x stable branch will also cease at the same point. Users of

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On May 31st, FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, and FreeBSD 6.2 will have reached their End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Since FreeBSD 5.5 is the last remaining supported release from the FreeBSD 5.x stable branch, support for the FreeBSD 5.x stable branch will also cease at the same point. Users of

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-EN-09:03.fxp Errata Notice The FreeBSD Project Topic: Poor TCP performance of fxp(4) Category: core Module: sys/dev Announced: 2009-06-24 Credits: Bjoern Koenig <bkoenig@alpha-tierchen.de> Pyun YongHyeon <yongari@FreeBSD.org> Affects:

-----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 7.1. The new list of supported branches is below and at < http://security.freebsd.org/ >. Users of FreeBSD 7.1 are advised to upgrade promptly to a newer release (most likely the recently announced FreeBSD 7.4)

-----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 7.1. The new list of supported branches is below and at < http://security.freebsd.org/ >. Users of FreeBSD 7.1 are advised to upgrade promptly to a newer release (most likely the recently announced FreeBSD 7.4)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-09:09.pipe Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Local information disclosure via direct pipe writes Category: core Module: kern

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On January 31st, FreeBSD 4.11 and FreeBSD 6.0 will have reached their End of Life dates and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of either of these FreeBSD releases are strongly encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, or the upcoming FreeBSD 6.2 before that date. Discussion concerning FreeBSD

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On January 31st, FreeBSD 4.11 and FreeBSD 6.0 will have reached their End of Life dates and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of either of these FreeBSD releases are strongly encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, or the upcoming FreeBSD 6.2 before that date. Discussion concerning FreeBSD

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, A short time ago a "local root" exploit was posted to the full-disclosure mailing list; as the name suggests, this allows a local user to execute arbitrary code as root. Normally it is the policy of the FreeBSD Security Team to not publicly discuss security issues until an advisory is ready, but in this case since exploit code is

Hi all, There are rumours flying around about a supposed vulnerability in OpenSSH. Two details which I've seen mentioned many times are (a) that this exploit was used to break into a RedHat system running OpenSSH 4.3 plus backported security patches, and (b) that "recent" versions of OpenSSH are not affected; but it's not clear if there is any basis for these rumours. Given

Hi all, Several people have written to me over the past couple of days to ask about a youtube video which allegedly shows a local root vulnerability in 8.1-beta1 being exploited. It is possible that the video is real and someone has found a vulnerability. It is also possible that the video is completely fake. There is no evidence on the video which is remotely conclusive in either direction.