ZDNet UK Highlights (Free subscription) | yesterday
The team behind the open-source operating system has moved quickly to close a flaw that gives local users administrative privileges to run any code they choose
Hardware 2.0 (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
If you are a FreeBSD user then it's patch time as a new exploit is published which gives attackers root access to machines. The flaw affects versions 8.0 and 7.1 of FreeBSD.
Arkytek Ltd :: Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
‘Unbelievably simple’ exploit A security bug in the latest version of the FreeBSD can be exploited to grant unprivileged users complete control over the operating system, a German researcher said Monday.… Full published article at: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/01/freebsd_root_bug/
OS News (Free subscription) | yesterday
"A short time ago a 'local root' exploit was posted to the full-disclosure mailing list; as the name suggests, this allows a local user to execute arbitrary code as root. Normally it is the policy of the FreeBSD Security Team to not publicly discuss security issues until an advisory is ready, but in this case since exploit code is already widely available I want to make a patch available ASAP."...
Andy Millar (Free subscription) | yesterday
A local root exploit was discovered and pasted on Full Disclosure (link). caffeine was vulnerable: [andy@caffeine ~/root]$ sh exploit.sh exploit.sh FreeBSD local r00t zeroday by Kingcope November 2009 env.c: In function ‘main’: env.c:5: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘malloc’ env.c:9: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function...
ZD Net (Free subscription) | yesterday
The FreeBSD security team has rushed out a temporary patch to cover a local root vulnerability that exposes users to code execution attacks. by Ryan Naraine
The Register (Free subscription) | yesterday
'Unbelievably simple' exploit A security bug in the latest version of the FreeBSD can be exploited to grant unprivileged users complete control over the operating system, a German researcher said Monday.…
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DistroWatch.com: News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Manuel Kasper has announced the release of m0n0wall 1.3, a minimalist firewall distribution based on FreeBSD: "After almost three years in beta, I have decided that m0n0wall 1.3 is now good enough for production. It's basically a re-release of 1.3b18, with two fixes thrown in. No major bugs....
bsdtalk (Free subscription) | 01/12/2009
FreeBSD 8.0 is out, and I'm hoping the Xen DomU support means that I can use it on Amazon's EC2 soon. Interview with OpenBSD enthusiast Girish Venkatachalam. File info: 25Min, 12MB. Ogg Link: http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk180.ogg
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Let's start with videos from Devoxx - the JDK 7 related videos are online now: Joe Darcy on Project Coin Mark Reinhold on JDK 7 & Java SE 7 Michael Ernst on detecting and preventing bugs with pluggable type checking Alex Buckley & Brian Goetz on the road towards a universal VM Mark Reinhold on the Modular Java Platform & Project Jigsaw In the OpenJDK BSD Port Wiki , S.P.Zeidler reported...
Phoronix (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
With the stable release of FreeBSD 8.0 arriving last week we finally were able to put it up on the test bench and give it a thorough look over with the Phoronix Test Suite. We compared the FreeBSD 8.0 performance between it and the earlier FreeBSD 7.2 release along with Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10 on the Linux side and then the OpenSolaris 2010.02 b127 snapshot on the Sun OS side.
DV Hardware (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
With the stable release of FreeBSD 8.0 arriving last week we finally were able to put it up on the test bench and give it a thorough look over with the Phoronix Test Suite. We compared the FreeBSD 8.0 performance between it and the earlier FreeBSD 7.2 release along with Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10 on the Linux side and then the OpenSolaris 201 0.02 b127 snapshot on the Sun OS side. Read more at Phoronix...
AterSlash (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
I am in quite a predicament. I decided a while back to branch out and use a new operating system (currently running Debian).
JabzWeb.com (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Not very known to the general public but widely used by the computer industry, the open source operating system Unix-compatible adhesive to ongoing trends: virtualization, storage and multiprocessor architectures. In the family of free operating systems, FreeBSD has a special position. This descendant of the first Unix (of AT&T and then BSD of UC Berkeley) mainly [...]
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