Fun variety this week. FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE Now Available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace. 2.11BSD Missing Patches. Ultra Hat Dimension – PlayOnBSD. Mostly linking because of the name. Valuable News – 2020/08/03. BSD Gaming is Improving – Proton on FreeBSD. (via) A BSD phone lives! Sorta. BSD Router Project 1.97. (via) FSF’s Free Software Gang almost included …
Dear all,
the datacenter that houses:
mail.NetBSD.org
ftp.NetBSD.org
the “real” www.NetBSD.org
wiki.NetBSD.org
www.pkgsrc.org
releng.NetBSD.org
gnats.NetBSD.org
blog.NetBSD.org
cvs.NetBSD.org
anoncvs.NetBSD.org
hgmaster.NetBSD.org
anonhg.NetBSD.org
w…
If you have an Intel-based system and it has trouble reading some USB ports, or odd behavior with some virtual machines, this recent bugfix in DragonFly-current may help you. I know, my description is vague, but I haven’t encountered this direct…
This week’s BSD Now leads with an interview of Warner Losh and his work with reviving 2.11BSD. Everyone’s been linking to his posts about it, so now you can hear his plans.
Errata patches for libX11 have been released for OpenBSD 6.6 and 6.7.
The recent security errata broke X11 input methods.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available via
the syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found…
With
this commit
and several more, Patrick Wildt (patrick@)
upgraded -current to version 10.0.0 of LLVM:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: patrick@cvs.openbsd.org 2020/08/03 08:30:27
Log message:
Import LLVM 10.0.0 release in…
It’s odd to think this, but the process of swapping out something entirely from RAM perhaps doesn’t really apply any more (except for compatibility).
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FreeBSD-SA-20:22.sqlite Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Multiple vulnerabilities in sqlite3
Category: contrib
Module: sqlite3
Announced: 2020-08-05
Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected: 2020-06-15 03:10:53 UTC (stable/12, 12.1-STABLE)
2020-08-05 17:13:08 UTC (releng/12.1, 12.1-RELEASE-p8)
2020-06-15 03:10:53 UTC (stable/11, 11.4-STABLE)
2020-08-05 17:13:08 UTC (releng/11.4, 11.4-RELEASE-p2)
2020-08-05 17:13:08 UTC (releng/11.3, 11.3-RELEASE-p12)
CVE Name: CVE-2020-11655, CVE-2020-11656,
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FreeBSD-SA-20:23.sendmsg Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: sendmsg(2) privilege escalation
Category: core
Module: kernel compat32
Announced: 2020-08-05
Credits: m00nbsd working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected: 2020-08-05 17:07:13 UTC (stable/12, 12.1-STABLE)
2020-08-05 17:14:01 UTC (releng/12.1, 12.1-RELEASE-p8)
2020-08-05 17:08:02 UTC (stable/11, 11.4-STABLE)
2020-08-05 17:14:01 UTC (releng/11.4, 11.4-RELEASE-p2)
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FreeBSD-SA-20:21.usb_net Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Potential memory corruption in USB network device drivers
Category: core
Module: kernel
Announced: 2020-08-05
Credits: Ilja van Sprundel, IOActive
Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected: 2020-06-14 05:25:06 UTC (stable/12, 12.1-STABLE)
2020-08-05 17:11:18 UTC (releng/12.1, 12.1-RELEASE-p8)
2020-06-14 05:27:37 UTC (stable/11, 11.4-STABLE)
2020-08-05 17:11:18 UTC (releng/11.4, 11.4-RELEASE-p2)
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FreeBSD-EN-20:16.vmx Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: vmx driver packet loss and degraded performance
Category: core
Module: vmx
Announced: 2020-08-05
Affects: FreeBSD 12.1
Corrected: 2020-01-20 22:15:33 UTC (stable/12, 12.1-STABLE)
2020-08-05 17:09:54 UTC (releng/12.1, 12.1-RELEASE-p8)
For general information regarding FreeBSD Errata Notices and Security
Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security
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Bootstrapping 2.11BSD (original)I’ve had the sources for what I think is the original 2.11BSD for some time now. However, how do I know these sources are good? That’s a very good question. I have a series of tests that I’m doing to verify that the sour…
I noticed a problem with a newly-created freshports daemon script: starting it would sometime freeze the terminal session. The rc.d script The rc.d script was fairly straight forward: Nothing odd there, right? This first happened a week or so ago. I moved on it and decided to look into later. But wait, there’s more This […]
A note for the future: if pkg itself isn’t working, you can use pkg-static.
2.11BSD Missing PatchesWhile looking into some date anomalies in the final image (since I’d like to get the dates right) I discovered a number of source directories had dates slightly newer than the date in the announcement. This lead me to discover so…
Preposted early; I’m traveling during the week so I have to throw all my extra tabs in quick. Computer graphic history at the Pixar Online Library. Goes back to the 80s. (via) thecookie.website. Cigarettes, Space Invaders and the birth of the game watch. (via) Synergy, multicomputer mouse and keyboard. (via) Open Source Software and Global …
That last link is around the corner from me. Audio Subsystem on Single Board Computers. Finding file duplicates with fdupes on FreeBSD. nvi2 in FreeBSD ports. First screen shot of 2.11BSD as released. When Unix learned to reboot(2). Valuable News – 2020/07/27. OPNsense® 20.7 “Legendary Lion” released. Software inventory with Salt on FreeBSD. (via) My …
Errata patches for Xorg have been released for OpenBSD 6.6 and 6.7.
Pixmaps inside the xserver were an info leak.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available via
the syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found on the …
Errata patches for libX11 have been released for OpenBSD 6.6 and 6.7.
Malformed messages can cause heap corruption in the X Input Method
client implementation in libX11.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available via
the sy…
This week’s BSD Now talks about a number of different releases, and also Emulex.