In Other BSDs for 2018/06/23
Lots of announcements, lots of reading. Note the first item listed is happening today.
Book Fair, 23 June 2018. Michael W. Lucas is at the Scriptorium Book Fest today, in Michigan. Go if you are near and get a signed BSD book.
Escape from System D, Episode V. Interesting cause it mentions BSD and interesting for spot-on (Read more...)
Extra DragonFly links
These would be ‘In Other BSD’ links, but this isn’t Other BSD – It’s DragonFly:
Towards a HAMMER1 master/slave encrypted setup with LUKS.
Intro, Installation, and Fun with Hammer2.
Building your own DragonFly
Mixed in with the other documentation on the DragonFly website is a “how to build a release” explanation. I use it every time there’s a new DragonFly version. If you were wanting to build a DragonFly ISO/IMG with changes or different preinstalled dports, I’ve added some notes about what’s relevant for non-relea [...]
BSDNow 251: Crypto HAMMER
BSDNow 251 has one of the more fun titles ever, and goes into HAMMER encryption, BSDCan details, and a number of other things that make for good BSD news.
OpenBSD Errata: June 21th, 2018 (perl...
Errata patches for perl have been released for OpenBSD 6.2 and 6.3.
Perl\'s Archive::Tar module could be made to write files outside of
its working directory.
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 [...]
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Not...
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FreeBSD-EN-18:07.pmap Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Incorrect TLB shootdown for Xen based guests [...]
httpd(8) Gains Simple Request Rewrite...
Reyk Floeter (reyk@) has
committed
support for simple request rewrites to
httpd(8)/
httpd.conf(5) [in -current]:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: r...@cvs.openbsd.org 2018/06/20 10:43:05
Modified files:
usr.sbin/httpd : config.c httpd.conf.5 httpd.h parse.y
server_http. [...]
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security A...
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FreeBSD-SA-18:07.lazyfpu Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Lazy FPU State Restore Information Disclosur [...]
Half billion tries for a HAMMER2 bug
I’m pulling a quote off of IRC to show some of the testing on HAMMER2, specifically as the background for this commit:
14:22 <@dillon_> ^^^ hammer2 bug, could reproduce it around once a day doing a continuous rm -rf on hardlinked snapshots. reproduced about once every 500 million directory entries or so
I am somewhat tickled by th [...]
SMT Disabled by Default in -current
As part of ongoing mitigations against CPU vulnerabilities,
-current has gained a new sysctl, "hw.smt",
to control Simultaneous Multi Threading (SMT).
This is disabled by default (only on Intel® CPUs, for now).
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SemiBUG, tonight: James Turner and BH...
SemiBUG meets tonight at 7 PM, and James Turner is presenting about BHCS. I rarely say this, but: I wish I was closer to Michigan. Go, if you are near.
National FreeBSD Day: FreeBSD is 25 y...
On June 19, 1993 the name FreeBSD was officially agreed on and has been used ever since. Find out more about how to celebrate this important day with us.
DragonFly 5.2.2 tagged
I’ve tagged and built DragonFly 5.2.2. This is mostly so that our current release image includes the fixes for the LazyFP bug, CVE-2018-3665. My email to users@ has upgrade details.
OpenBSD Errata: June 17th, 2018 (inte...
Errata patches for x86 floating-point units have been released for OpenBSD 6.3.
Intel CPUs speculatively access FPU registers even when the FPU is disabled,
so data (including AES keys) from previous contexts could be discovered if
using the lazy-save approach.
Binary updates for the amd64 platform are available via the syspatch utility.
So [...]
Lazy Reading for 2018/06/17
I’m going heavy on history this week.
“an imaginary mail order computer games shop in 1985“.
NeoVim, a refactoring of Vim.
“The Obscuritory, a blog about lesser-known, odder games and software.” (via)
Pulling the rug out from under an internet protocol.
Building the Commodore that should have existed. (via)
Via [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/06/16
Lots of different items, probably because of BSDCan.
EuroBSDCon 2018 is happening September 20-23 at University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania – Call for papers ends tomorrow.
June HardenedBSD Foundation Update. (via)
FreeBSD 11.2-RC2 Available.
Valuable News – 2018/06/09.
Pledge and Unveil in OpenBSD [pdf]. Knew about pledg [...]
More Mitigations for (potential) CPU ...
There have been more developments in the continuing work mitigating
against (Intel®, and potentially other) CPU vulnerabilities…
Philip Guenther (guenther@)
committed the following:
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LDAP client added to -current
Reyk Floeter (reyk@) has
committed
a simple LDAP client to -current:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: reyk@cvs.openbsd.org 2018/06/13 09:45:58
Log message:
Import ldap(1), a simple ldap search client.
Read more…
FreeBSD 11.2-RC3 Available
The third RC 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.
