NetBSD Security Advisory 2018-008: Se...
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NetBSD Security Advisory 2018-008
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Topic: Several vulnerabilities in NPF
Version: NetBSD-current: source prior to Thu, Mar 22nd 2018
NetBSD 7.1 - 7.1.2: affected
NetBSD 7.0 - 7.0.2: affected
NetBSD 6.1 - 6.1.5: affected
NetBSD 6.0 - 6.0.6: affecte [...]
BSDNow 247: Interning for FreeBSD
BSDNow 247 leads with a report on Mitchell Horne working for the FreeBSD Foundation (actually in the office) as an intern. It’s an interesting contrast to the all-online model for most committers. There’s plenty more links.
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A root permissions change
New DragonFly installs are chmod 700 for /root, not 755, from this recent change. Change your existing installation if desired.
Tools for building DragonFly
If you’ve ever wondered what packages are needed to build a DragonFly release: here they are in one dports metapackage.
DragonFly 5.2.1 tagged
I’ve tagged a x.x.1 release – DragonFly 5.2.1, available now. It includes the recently-mentioned fix for CVE-2018-8897 and some other minor updates. See my email to users@ for the details.
An annotated look at a NetBSD Pineboo...
Pinebook is an affordable 64-bit ARM notebook. Today we\'re going to take a look at the kernel output at startup and talk about what hardware support is available on NetBSD.
MATE 1.20 on NetBSD arm64 (Pinebook), thanks @YouriMouton ! pic.twitter.com/VYHDzQY1gb— Jared McNeill (@jmcwhatever) May 20, 2018
Loaded initial symtab at 0 [...]
Lazy Reading for 2018/05/20
A little more on building and less on rights this week.
Making a Laptop From Scratch. Note the protocol used to fetch the document. (via)
25th International Obfuscated C Code Contest. (via)
Mutt and HTML Email. (via)
Software Engineering Takeaways.
The Game of Everything, Part 10: Civilization and the Limits of Progress (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2018/05/19
Note the eleventy-jillion hackathon reports.
OpenBSD 6.3 : why and how. (via)
Helpful OpenBSD Tutorials. A request for input, not a link to existing.
A pile of p2k18 hackathon reports. And more.
“We didn’t chase the fad of using every Intel cpu feature.” (via)
Getting CUPS working under NetBSD?
What I (Read more...)
FreeBSD 11.2-BETA1 Available
The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
ACPICA update to 20180508 in DragonFl...
Sascha Wildner has brought in the last 9 months of ACPICA updates to DragonFly. This may mean better power or motherboard support for your hardware in DragonFly. I always have a hard time pointing directly to ACPICA updates and how they benefit, but looking at the changelog update may help.
OpenBSD Errata: May 17th, 2018 (ipsec...
Errata patches for IPsec have been released for OpenBSD 6.3 and 6.2.
A malicious packet can cause a kernel crash when using IPsec over IPv6.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available via
the syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found on the respective
errata pages:
https://www.openbsd.org/errata62.html [...]
BSDNow 246: Properly Coordinated Disc...
BSDNow 246’s title is talking about CVE-2018-8897, which was (unlike the original Spectre/Meltdown) responsibly disclosed to many different operating system vendors, including the BSDs. As a result, fixes arrived a lot faster… seems like a good idea. No interview in this episode, but as always there’s other topics explore [...]
ipfw3: highspeed lockless in-kernel N...
This commit from Bill Yuan says “highspeed lockless in-kernel NAT”, and lists a huge number of changes for ipfw3. How much of a change is it? I don’t know; there isn’t a matching documentation update and I don’t have a way to test.
p2k18 Hackathon Report: Antoine Jacou...
Next up in the stream of p2k18 reports is one from Antoine Jacoutot (ajacoutot@):
Because there was yet another national railroad strike, I decided not to take
any chance and arrived on the eve of the hackathon. I figured it would be a good
excuse for a pajama party at gilles@\'s. It turned out to be a great
(Read more...)
Your OS and international politics
I like pointing out how political world events push their way into computer updates.
SemiBUG, tonight
SemiBUG‘s having a hands-on server workshop tonight. Go, if you are near, and bring something networked to type on.
