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Vulnerabilities in FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on from the finding-and-plugging dept.

flynn_nrg writes: "O'Reilly has an interesting article about vulnerabilities in common programs found on most FreeBSD boxes. From the article: "Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open source security advisories. In this column, we look at buffer overflows in OpenSSH, Squid, Listar/Ecartis, slrnpull, and IRIX's syslogd; problems in Sudo, MHonArc, and Mosix; and a local root hole and denial-of-service attack vulnerability in FreeBSD.""

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  1. Oh dear, my FreeBSD box is insecure... by Thornae · · Score: 4, Informative
    Better fix that:


    #cvsup /etc/cvsupfile
    #cd /usr/src
    #make buildworld
    #make installworld

    There. I feel much safer now.

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