NetBSD Security Advisory 2018-004: Re...
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Topic: Remote Memory Corruption in IPv6
Version: NetBSD-current: source prior to Tue, Jan 30th 2018
NetBSD 7.1: affected
NetBSD 7.0 - 7.0.2: affected
NetBSD 6.1 - 6.1.4: affected
NetBSD 6.0 - 6.0.5: affected
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NetBSD Security Advisory 2018-003: Re...
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Topic: Remote DoS in IPsec (IPv6)
Version: NetBSD-current: source prior to Wed, Jan 24th 2018
NetBSD 7.1: affected
NetBSD 7.0 - 7.0.2: affected
NetBSD 6.1 - 6.1.4: affected
NetBSD 6.0 - 6.0.5: affected
Severity [...]
BSDCan 2018 registration open
As the title says, you can register for BSDCan 2018 now.
(Not leaving this for the weekend BSD summary cause I need to remind myself to plan for travel if possible.)
Lazy Reading for 2018/04/08
Accidental theme this week: Social media is a dead end.
ViperCard – An open source re-creation and re-imagination of HyperCard. I… could have sworn I already linked to this but I can’t find it. (via)
gokrazy – Go userland. Every language eventually reinvents the wheel this way. (via)
The Game of Everything, Part 4: Civil [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/04/07
Losing power at home this week put a dent in my reading throughput, so to speak, but this will do.
DragonFFI: FFI/JIT for the C language using Clang/LLVM. Not actually related to DragonFly or really BSD, but I like the synchronicity. (via)
Simplifying Linux with … fish? Or BSD.
New BSDMag issue – with a feature (Read more...)
BSDNow 240: TCP Blackbox recording
This week’s BSDNow has an intriguing title, and the show covers a number of hardware and software changes – no interview.
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FreeBSD-EN-18:04.mem Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Multiple small kernel memory disclosures
Ca [...]
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FreeBSD-SA-18:05.ipsec Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: ipsec crash or denial of service
Category: [...]
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FreeBSD-EN-18:03.tzdata Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Timezone database information update
Catego [...]
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FreeBSD-SA-18:04.vt Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: vt console memory disclosure
Category: [...]
QUICKHALT in DragonFly
Shutdowns are a bit faster in DragonFly, thanks to the addition of a QUICKHALT shortcut. How much faster? It depends on what devices you have mounted, I suspect. I haven’t yet updated and tried.
OpenBSD 6.3 Released
April 2, 2018: The OpenBSD
project has announced the availability of the newest release,
OpenBSD 6.3:
We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 6.3.
This is our 44th release. We remain proud of OpenBSD\'s record of more
than twenty years with only two remote holes in the default install.
Notable changes include:
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OpenBSD 6.3 Released – Apr 2, 2...
The release was scheduled for April 15, but since all the components
are ready ahead of schedule it is being released now.
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Apr 15, 2018.
We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD [...]
Struggling to fix a bohrbug in X86 De...
I\'ve spent a month on fixes and debugging issues around the tracing facilities in the kernel.
Distribution cleanup
As planned in the previous month, I\'ve performed cleanup in the distribution:
Removal of unneeded PT_SET_SIGMASK and PT_GET_SIGMASK, followed by pullup to NetBSD-8.
regnsub(3) and regasub(3) API change has been abandoned as [...]
LibreSSL 2.7.2 Released
We have released LibreSSL 2.7.2, which will be arriving in the LibreSSL
directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon. LibreSSL 2.7.2 is the first
stable release from the 2.7 series, and is also included with OpenBSD 6.3.
It includes the following changes from 2.7.1
* Updated and added extensive new HISTORY sections to API manuals.
* Added [...]
Book Review: Ed Mastery
I don’t normally offer guest posts here, but on this rare occasion I couldn’t say no. Here’s a guest post from Michael W Lucas.
What one of us finds delightful, another person might find loathsome. That’s human nature. I keep reminding myself of this every time people start babbling about the virtues of something I fin [...]
