Four NetBSD Security Advisories, Fixes Released

Posted by michael on Friday October 10, 2003 @01:06AM from the some-assembly-required dept.

Dan writes "The NetBSD security team has formally announced 4 security advisories and fixes for the following advisories: NetBSD-SA2003-014 Insufficient argument checking in sysctl(2); NetBSD-SA2003-015 Remote and local vulnerabilities in XFree86 font libraries; NetBSD-SA2003-016 Sendmail - another prescan() bug CAN-2003-0694; NetBSD-SA2003-017 OpenSSL multiple vulnerability. There is an integer overflow in the XFree86 font libraries, which could lead to potential privilege escalation and/or remote code execution. Sendmail advisory involves a prescan() bug in sendmail packages prior to 8.12.10. OpenSSL had multiple vulnerabilities, they were found by tests performed by NISCC. Finally, insufficient argument checking in sysctl(2) which could be exploited."

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Haiku by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-10 01:13 · Score: -1, Troll

Gaping holes filled
Rotting corpse obsolete code
BSD end near
BSD gets it's skeleton smashed at OSnews! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-10 02:05 · Score: -1, Troll

Trolls, here is some inspiration for future BSD trolls

P.S, I deleted my freebsd partition last night and installed Linux back on it!
FreeBSD? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-10 04:19 · Score: -1, Troll

Do people still actually USE FreeBSD? Wasn't it rendered obsolete by Linux YEARS ago?
Haiku by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-10 11:05 · Score: -1, Troll

BSD is dead
Dead Dead Dead Dead Dead Dead Dead
It's quite dead