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FreeBSD Kernel Leak

Posted by Hemos on from the batten-the-hatches dept.

Pine Digital Security announced a FreeBSD kernel leak, found when auditing a customer. The leak can be exploited to panic the server or elevate privileges. FreeBSD swiftly updated CVS, a security advisory will probably follow. Both the -RELEASE branch and -CURRENT branch are vulnerable.

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  1. Zealots... by cyb97 · · Score: 0, Troll
    That's a big blow for the BSD-zealots, I guess the linux-mob will be over this one like flies and something old ;-)...

    Remind me to stay of EFNet tonight....

  2. Rackspace by rawg · · Score: 1, Troll

    Is this the reason that Rackspace would not let me use FreeBSD on their network 6 months ago? They said that if I use FreeBSD then I will be hacked. Then they pushed RedHad Linux on me.

    To this day, I do not know why they said FreeBSD is insecure at the Kernel.

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