The FreeBSD project is pleased to announce the first transition from
Subversion to Git, for the doc repository.
We will begin the migration sometime on December 5th and hope to be
completed by December 8th. Please see
https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd…
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FreeBSD-SA-20:32.rtsold Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Multiple vulnerabilities in rtsold
Category: core
Module: rtsold
Announced: 2020-12-01
Credits: Quarkslab Vulnerability Reports
Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD
Corrected: 2020-12-01 19:35:48 UTC (stable/12, 12.2-STABLE)
2020-12-01 19:39:44 UTC (releng/12.2, 12.2-RELEASE-p1)
2020-12-01 19:39:44 UTC (releng/12.1, 12.1-RELEASE-p11)
2020-12-01 19:36:37 UTC (stable/11, 11.4-STABLE)
2020-12-01 19:39:44 UTC (releng/11.4, 11.4-RELEASE-p5)
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FreeBSD-SA-20:31.icmp6 Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: ICMPv6 use-after-free in error message handling
Category: core
Module: icmp6
Announced: 2020-12-01
Credits: Maxime Villard
Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected: 2020-11-05 22:41:54 UTC (stable/12, 12.2-STABLE)
2020-12-01 19:38:52 UTC (releng/12.2, 12.2-RELEASE-p1)
2020-12-01 19:38:52 UTC (releng/12.1, 12.1-RELEASE-p11)
2020-12-01 03:07:26 UTC (stable/11, 11.4-STABLE)
2020-12-01 19:38:52 UTC (releng/11.4,
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FreeBSD-EN-20:22.callout Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Race condition in callout CPU migration
Category: core
Module: callout
Announced: 2020-12-01
Affects: FreeBSD 12.1 and 12.2
Corrected: 2020-11-26 14:57:30 UTC (stable/12, 12.2-STABLE)
2020-12-01 19:37:33 UTC (releng/12.2, 12.2-RELEASE-p1)
2020-12-01 19:37:33 UTC (releng/12.1, 12.1-RELEASE-p11)
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FreeBSD-EN-20:21.ipfw Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Uninitialized variable in ipfw
Category: core
Module: ipfw
Announced: 2020-12-01
Affects: FreeBSD 12.2
Corrected: 2020-10-18 20:54:15 UTC (stable/12, 12.2-STABLE)
2020-12-01 19:36:36 UTC (releng/12.2, 12.2-RELEASE-p1)
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FreeBSD-EN-20:20.tzdata Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Timezone database information update
Category: contrib
Module: zoneinfo
Announced: 2020-12-01
Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected: 2020-10-23 01:06:33 UTC (stable/12, 12.1-STABLE)
2020-12-01 19:35:48 UTC (releng/12.2, 12.2-RELEASE-p1)
2020-12-01 19:35:48 UTC (releng/12.1, 12.1-RELEASE-p11)
2020-10-23 01:06:42 UTC (stable/11, 11.4-STABLE)
2020-12-01 19:35:48 UTC (releng/11.4, 11.4-RELEASE-p5)
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FreeBSD-EN-20:19.audit Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: execve/fexecve system call auditing
Category: core
Module: kernel
Announced: 2020-12-01
Affects: FreeBSD 12.1 and later.
Corrected: 2020-10-27 13:13:04 UTC (stable/12, 12.2-STABLE)
2020-12-01 19:34:45 UTC (releng/12.2, 12.2-RELEASE-p1)
2020-12-01 19:34:45 UTC (releng/12.1, 12.1-RELEASE-p11)
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