ChiBUG online tonight
ChiBUG will be meeting today at 6:30PM CST via Zoom. Go, even if you aren’t near.
Lazy Reading for 2021/04/11
Some looks backward to prior links, but in a good way. Beatportal’s Definitive Guide to Techno. (via) Which reminds me of eternal favorite Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music. Your E-Mail Validation Logic is Wrong. There’s a whole chapter about this in the most in-depth regex book I ever read. ifconfig.co. Fetch that site for your …
In Other BSDs for 2021/04/10
I’m hitting all the unixes. Atari Heavy Sixer. Not BSD, System V, but also note the post date. Knuth is still working on TeX. (via) Managing Multiple PostgreSQL Instances on FreeBSD. (via) XScreenSaver 6.00 out now. Haven’t seen it in dports yet. I got the GNU Modula-2 compiler working on OpenBSD. ChiBUG will be meeting …
HTTPS default
I thought I had done this before, but apparently not: the site is switched to https by default. Tell me if you notice problems from that.
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD/arm64 becoming Tier 1 in FreeBSD 13
Summary
FreeBSD will promote arm64 to a Tier 1 architecture in FreeBSD 13.
This means we will provide release images, binary packages, and
security and errata updates. While we anticipate there will be minor
issues with this first release, we believe …
Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD/arm64 becoming Tier 1 in FreeBSD 13
> FreeBSD will promote arm64 to a Tier 1 architecture in FreeBSD 13.
> This means we will provide release images, binary packages, and
> security and errata updates. While we anticipate there will be minor
> issues with this first release, we believe …
BSD Now 397: Fresh BSD 2021
This week’s BSD Now covers the usual mix of articles – I see some Gemini sneaking in! – and mentions something I should have; the revamp of FreshBSD.
[Midnightbsd-security] MidnightBSD 2.0.7
A security update for MidnightBSD is now available in git, version 2.0.7.
This update includes two security updates and a new version of our package manager, mport.
The new version of the package manager no longer uses libdispatch / blocks and has …
HardenedBSD at NYCBUG, tonight
HardenedBSD 2021 “State of the Hardened Union”, presented by Shawn Webb, happening at NYCBUG at 6:45 tonight. See the announcement for how to get the invite.
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-21:10.jail_mount
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FreeBSD-SA-21:10.jail_mount Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: jail escape possible by mounting over jail root
Category: core
Module: jail
Announced: 2021-04-06
Credits: Mateusz Guzik
Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected: 2021-04-06 18:50:48 UTC (stable/13, 13.0-STABLE)
2021-04-06 19:18:59 UTC (releng/13.0, 13.0-RC5-p1)
2021-04-06 19:20:50 UTC (stable/12, 12.2-STABLE)
2021-04-06 19:21:33 UTC (releng/12.2, 12.2-RELEASE-p6)
2021-04-06 19:22:31
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-21:09.accept_filter
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FreeBSD-SA-21:09.accept_filter Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: double free in accept_filter(9) socket configuration interface
Category: core
Module: accept_filter
Announced: 2021-04-06
Credits: Alexey Kulaev
Affects: FreeBSD 12.2 and later.
Corrected: 2021-03-28 00:24:15 UTC (stable/13, 13.0-STABLE)
2021-03-28 15:03:37 UTC (releng/13.0, 13.0-RC4)
2021-03-28 00:26:49 UTC (stable/12, 12.2-STABLE)
2021-04-06 19:21:21 UTC (releng/12.2, 12.2-RELEASE-p6)
CVE Name: CVE-2021-29627
For
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-21:08.vm
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FreeBSD-SA-21:08.vm Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Memory disclosure by stale virtual memory mapping
Category: core
Module: vm
Announced: 2021-04-06
Credits: Ryan Libby, Dell Inc.
Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected: 2021-04-06 18:50:46 UTC (stable/13, 13.0-STABLE)
2021-04-06 19:18:49 UTC (releng/13.0, 13.0-RC5-p1)
2021-04-06 19:20:46 UTC (stable/12, 12.2-STABLE)
2021-04-06 19:21:30 UTC (releng/12.2, 12.2-RELEASE-p6)
2021-04-06
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-21:10.lldb
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FreeBSD-EN-21:10.lldb Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: lldb abort on print command
Category: contrib
Module: lldb
Announced: 2021-04-06
Affects: FreeBSD 12.2
Corrected: 2020-10-31 18:42:03 UTC (stable/12, 12.2-STABLE)
2021-04-06 19:21:27 UTC (releng/12.2, 12.2-RELEASE-p6)
For general information regarding FreeBSD Errata Notices and Security
Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security
branches, and the following
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-21:09.pf
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FreeBSD-EN-21:09.pf Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: net.pf.request_maxcount not settable from loader.conf(5)
Category: core
Module: pf
Announced: 2021-04-06
Affects: FreeBSD 12.2
Corrected: 2020-12-15 08:29:45 UTC (stable/12, 12.2-STABLE)
2021-04-06 19:21:24 UTC (releng/12.2, 12.2-RELEASE-p6)
For general information regarding FreeBSD Errata Notices and Security
Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security
branches, and the following
zstd in DragonFly
zstd(1) is now in dsynth, in DragonFly as a library, multi-threaded when you specify, and available as a decompression method for reading files.
Lazy Reading for 2021/04/04
I lost the origin of some of these links this week; too many tabs open. Sorry! Moog System 55, so many analog controls! (via) Mike Beauchamp Projects. I like the clock. (via) Shrink, Reduce, and Implode: The Legacy Zip Compression Methods. (via) The complete guide for open sourcing video games. A Gemini (and Atom and …
net-mgmt/net-snmpd wants /snmp/snmpd.conf
snmpd can be royal pain to configure. I got my hints from Ryan Steinmetz, the maintainer for the FreeBSD port. Lately, net-snmpd has changed how net-snmp-config works. In this post: FreeBSD 12.2 net-snmp-5.9_3,1 Compare my hints with the following, run today with net-snmp-5.9_3,1: [dan@nginx01:~] $ sudo net-snmp-config –create-snmpv3-user -ro -x AES -a SHA -A ‘secret123’ […]
In Other BSDs for 2021/04/03
Well, I made up for last week’s short list. What tool you use to read IPMI sensor information can matter. Not directly BSD, but the tools described are in ports. The origin of POSIX. The name, not the standard. TWAIN has the best pseudo-origin. (via) Does the old Unix still exist, besides its descendants? Yes, …
BSD Now 396: License to thrill
This week’s BSD Now is the usual roundup of news; FreeBSD-heavy, including some of the future planning for the project.