A proposal for a new RPKI validator: ...
Job Snijders (job@) has written an
article at Medium
proposing rpki-client(1),
a new, BSD-licensed
RPKI
validator.
[ TL;DR—$1000 out of $20,000 USD has been pledged! ]
As always, readers are encouraged to contribute!
Update: As noted in the first comment here, the article has been updated (already!) with good news [...]
BSD Now 274: Language: Assembly
This week’s BSD Now covers assembly on OpenBSD, games on FreeBSD, and disk space on DragonFly.
OpenBSD Errata: November 29th, 2018 (...
Errata patches for vmd have been released for OpenBSD 6.4.
Writing more than 4GB to a qcow2 volume corrupts the virtual disk.
Binary updates for the amd64 and i386 platforms are available via the
syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found on the errata page:
https://www.openbsd.org/errata64.html
After patching, restart the vmd s [...]
OpenBSD Errata: November 29th, 2018 (...
Errata patches for OpenSMTPD have been released for OpenBSD 6.4.
The mail.mda and mail.lmtp delivery agents were not reporting temporary
failures correctly, causing smtpd to bounce messages in some cases where
it should have retried them.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available
via the syspatch utility. Source [...]
OpenBSD Errata: November 29th, 2018 (...
Errata patches for the kernel have been released for OpenBSD 6.3 and 6.4.
UNIX domain sockets leak kernel memory with MSG_PEEK on SCM_RIGHTS, or can
attempt excessive memory allocations leading to a crash.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available
via the syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found on the
[...]
OpenBSD Errata: November 29th, 2018 (...
Errata patches for perl have been released for OpenBSD 6.3 and 6.4.
Various overflows exist in perl.
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 page:
https://www.openbsd.org/errata63.html
https://www.openbsd.org/errata64.html
OpenBGPD – Adding Diversity to ...
Claudio Jeker (claudio@) wrote in to let us know that he and Job Snijders (job@) have written
an article about OpenBGPD
for
RIPE Labs.
There has been a lot of activity from my side going to OpenBGPD. Thanks to
some funding by RIPE NCC and many European internet exchange points I was
able to work (Read more...)
[FreeBSD-Announce] Interim support gu...
Dear FreeBSD community,
The Core Team, in consultation with Release Engineering, the Security
Team, and Port Manager has decided that we need to reevaluate the 5-year
support of stable branches starting with stable/12. A changed security
landscape, increased toolchain velocity, and shorter support windows for
our upstream components necessi [...]
How all those dports get built
I’ve mentioned it before, but the tool ‘synth‘ is what DragonFly uses to build all the dports binaries – over 30,000 packages, though I’m typing that from memory and not from looking at a tool. Anyway, the one part of the release process I’ve never touched was the package building – and now it’ [...]
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Not...
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FreeBSD-EN-18:13.icmp Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: ICMP buffer underwrite
Category: core [...]
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FreeBSD-EN-18:14.tzdata Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Timezone database information update
Catego [...]
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FreeBSD-EN-18:15.loader Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Deferred kernel loading breaks loader passwo [...]
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security A...
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FreeBSD-SA-18:13.nfs Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Multiple vulnerabilities in NFS server code
[...]
DragonFly 5.4rc1 image to use
I uploaded the current 5.4 release candidate – there’s an ISO and an IMG file, though your local mirror may be a better place to get it than those links. Or just wait; I think the release won’t be long.
Note that I was smart for once and named it ‘rc1’, so if there’s another release candidate, it can be ( [...]
wpa_supplicant installed by default i...
Bear with me; this is the history: wpa_supplicant is the program DragonFly uses to connect to most wireless networks. It’s been part of the base system for some time, but if you start it up, you will see a warning (at boot time) about how this version is deprecated. Installing from dports puts a newer version in place.
As is (Read mo [...]
Lazy Reading for 2018/11/25
A sorta backwards-looking list for you, this week.
IBM PC-XT Emulator on an ESP8266. The hardware is basically a wifi USB plug. (via)
Leak Mitigation Checklist. “If you just leaked sensitive information in public source code…” (also via)
@Play 87: Interview with Josh Ge, Creator of Cogmind.
C Portability Lessons from We [...]
FreeBSD 12.0-RC2 Available
The second RC build for the FreeBSD 12.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
In Other BSDs for 2018/11/24
Games are the unofficial accidental theme this week.
FreeBSD 12 Release Engineering Branch Created. Also, RC1 (via)
Distrowatch.com NetBSD 8.0 Review. (via)
Celebrating 50 years of Unix. (via)
FreeBSD Network Management with network.sh. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 2.1 – Install FreeBSD 12.
Our pragmatic attachment to OpenBSD [...]
BSD Now 273: A Thoughtful Episode
This week’s BSD Now (notice I’m spelling it correctly now, with a space) has, along with NetBSD and OpenBSD material, happens to talk about NomadBSD, which I’ve never really managed to cover.
DragonFly 5.4rc1 tagged
I tagged the first release candidate for DragonFly 5.4 last night. The commit message has summary lines from all the commits in this release, if you want to go through them – or wait for the release notes. I’m happy to see some new-to-me committer names in there, too.
