A new daemon(8)
daemon(8) has been updated, cause there’s ports that expect daemon to have some specific flags – especially -T.
There is a certain correlation between this utility and certain BSD logos.
BSD Now 335: FreeBSD Down Under
BSD Now 335 is up, with links to a bunch of advocacy articles this week, and also notation of a (past) BSD conference in Australia, and an interview of a Hyperbola dev; a project I need to pay more attention to.
What files installed by this package have been modified post-install?
You’ve seen it. A package gets installed. Some shell scripts are included. They get modified. It happens. But how do you know what has changed? I know there is a tool in pkg for this. I know there is a periodic script which uses it. Let’s go looking. In this post: FreeBSD 12.1 periodic $ […]
HAMMER2 and how to use
If you’ve been following HAMMER2 for some time, these questions and answers will not be new to you – but they are useful notes all the same.
It’s always snd_hda
Just like it’s always DNS, if you have to ask what your sound device is… it’s probably hda. That’s been the answer I think I’ve seen every time for maybe a decade?
OpenBSD Errata: January 30th, 2020 (smtpd_tls)
Errata patches for OpenSMTPD have been released for OpenBSD 6.5 and 6.6.
smtpd can crash on opportunistic TLS downgrade, causing a denial of service.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available via
the syspatch utility. Sour…
OpenBSD Errata: January 30th, 2020 (smtpd_exec)
Errata patches for OpenSMTPD have been released for OpenBSD 6.5 and 6.6.
An incorrect check allows an attacker to trick mbox delivery into executing
arbitrary commands as root and lmtp delivery into executing arbitrary commands
as an unprivileged user…
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-20:02.nmount
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Topic: nmount invalid pointer dereference
Category: core
Module: kernel
Announced: 2020-01-28
Credits: Andrew Turner
Affects: FreeBSD 11.3 and FreeBSD 12.0.
Corrected: 2019-10-03 07:17:26 UTC (stable/12, 12.1-STABLE)
2019-10-04 14:10:56 UTC (releng/12.1, 12.1-RELEASE)
2020-01-28 18:54:15 UTC (releng/12.0, 12.0-RELEASE-p13)
2019-10-04 17:27:49 UTC (stable/11, 11.3-STABLE)
2020-01-28 18:54:15 UTC (releng/11.3, 11.3-RELEASE-p6)
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[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-20:01.ssp
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Topic: Imprecise ordering of SSP canary initialization
Category: core
Module: libc
Announced: 2020-01-28
Credits: Kyle Evans
Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected: 2019-11-25 03:49:38 UTC (stable/12, 12.1-STABLE)
2020-01-28 18:53:14 UTC (releng/12.1, 12.1-RELEASE-p2)
2020-01-28 18:53:14 UTC (releng/12.0, 12.0-RELEASE-p13)
2019-11-25 03:49:38 UTC (stable/11, 11.3-STABLE)
2020-01-28 18:53:14 UTC (releng/11.3,
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-20:02.ipsec
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Topic: Missing IPsec anti-replay window check
Category: core
Module: kernel
Announced: 2020-01-28
Credits: Jean-Francois HREN
Affects: FreeBSD 12.0 only
Corrected: 2020-01-28 18:56:46 UTC (releng/12.0, 12.0-RELEASE-p13)
CVE Name: CVE-2019-5613
For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories,
including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the
following sections,
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-20:03.thrmisc
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Topic: kernel stack data disclosure
Category: core
Module: kernel
Announced: 2020-01-28
Credits: Ilja Van Sprundel
Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected: 2019-11-15 16:40:10 UTC (stable/12, 12.1-STABLE)
2020-01-28 18:57:45 UTC (releng/12.1, 12.1-RELEASE-p2)
2020-01-28 18:57:45 UTC (releng/12.0, 12.0-RELEASE-p13)
2019-11-15 16:40:55 UTC (stable/11, 11.3-STABLE)
2020-01-28 18:57:45 UTC (releng/11.3, 11.3-RELEASE-p6)
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-20:01.libfetch
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The FreeBSD Project
Topic: libfetch buffer overflow
Category: core
Module: libfetch
Announced: 2020-01-28
Credits: Duncan Overbruck
Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected: 2020-01-28 18:40:55 UTC (stable/12, 12.1-STABLE)
2020-01-28 18:55:25 UTC (releng/12.1, 12.1-RELEASE-p2)
2020-01-28 18:55:25 UTC (releng/12.0, 12.0-RELEASE-p13)
2020-01-28 18:42:06 UTC (stable/11, 11.3-STABLE)
2020-01-28 18:55:25 UTC (releng/11.3, 11.3-RELEASE-p6)
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[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report – Fourth Quarter 2019
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Here is the last quarterly status report for 2019. As you might
remember from last report, we changed our timeline: no…
Lazy Reading for 2019/01/26
I literally just smooshed all my open tabs that weren’t baking–related into this post. Electric Rogue. (via) Tiny Helpers. Single-purpose web development tools. (via) Manytools, similar. (via) Bringing the London Bus Network home. Home-made info screen. (via) Fun With Software. An AR joke. fast_template, your own blog, without having to buy into anyone’s platform. (via) …
In Other BSDs for 2020/01/25
BUGs BUGs BUGs this week. I’ll make sure to note the events again when they get closer, too. Cataclysm – Dark Days Ahead. Turn-based apocalyptic survival, open source and probably runs on BSD. (via) NYCBUG is looking for speakers for I assume February and April; March was I think filled after this was written. SemiBUG’s …
BSD Now 334: Distrowatch Running FreeBSD
BSD Now 334 is posted, with juuuust the right mix of items; some advocacy, some license confusion (for Linux), etc. I notice linked in the bottom section the February NYCBUG meeting will have Paul Vixie talking at their meeting, which hasn’t eve…
Font installation in DragonFly
I imagine this may work for any BSD, really. Aaron Li has the instructions, which may be especially useful for non-English readers.
NetBSD Security Advisory 2020-001: Missing permissions checks for network ioctls
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Topic: Missing permissions checks for network ioctls
Version: NetBSD-current: affected
NetBSD 9.0_RC1: affected
NetBSD 8.1:…