Backdoor in xz 5.6.0

2024-03-29 Thread Alan Somers
A malicious developer added a backdoor to xz 5.6.0 and 5.6.1, and snuck it into Fedora builds. That's the same version that FreeBSD CURRENT uses. For multiple reasons we aren't vulnerable (the malicious code isn't included in xz's git repo, only its dist tarballs, the malicious code is only trigg

Re: Wrong patch link in FreeBSD-EN-21:24.libcrypto

2021-08-24 Thread Alan Somers
Sounds good. On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 4:51 PM Gordon Tetlow wrote: > There's always one. Thanks for the check. I've just pushed this to the > website with the corrected link. It should be corrected in the next 5-10 > minutes online. > > Regards, > Gordon > > On

Wrong patch link in FreeBSD-EN-21:24.libcrypto

2021-08-24 Thread Alan Somers
The just published errata notice contains a bad url. is: fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/EN-21:17/libcrypto.patch should be: https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/EN-21:24/libcrypto.patch -Alan ___ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Periodic jobs lockf timeout

2017-10-24 Thread Alan Somers
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 3:07 AM, Borja Marcos wrote: > > Hi, > > I’ve come across a problem with the “daily” security job. On an overloaded > system with lots of ZFS datasets, > lots of files, heavy system load and, to add insult to injury, a ZFS crub > going on the find’s issued by the > period

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-16:19.sendmsg

2016-05-17 Thread Alan Somers
I think you put the wrong revision numbers in here. Revision 300093 is the kbd fix for stable/9. 300092 is the right revision for the sendmsg fix in stable/10. On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 4:40 PM, FreeBSD Security Advisories < security-advisor...@freebsd.org> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-