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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. Re:Lame Article by Abnormal+Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I was wondering what you mean by "Debian is barely more than a kernel".

    Don't know if your refering to the same debian that I know. The debian I know is project (ran by volulteers) to develiver a very high qaulity Operating System accoss a number of diffrent platforms. Presently the main flavour of debian 'GNU/Linux', but theres others in the work.

    Debian is pretty damn easy to configure to your needs, and doesn't do nasty things (can I say Yast from SuSE) like overwriting config files you have edited directly.

    Agreed the article pretty much covers all *nix's, and from what I can see most, if not all of the vulnerabilities have been fixed allready ...