Re: freebsd-update and portsnap users still at risk of compromise

2016-08-09 Thread Roger Marquis
Timely update via Hackernews: Note in particular: "FreeBSD is still vulnerable to the portsnap, freebsd-update, bspatch, and libarchive vulnerabilities." Not sure why the portsec team has not commented or published an advisory (possibly because the freebsd list spam filters are so bad that

Re: freebsd-update and portsnap users still at risk of compromise

2016-08-09 Thread Matthew Donovan
You mean operating system as distribution is a Linux term. There's not much different between HARDENEDBSD and FreeBSD besides that HardenedBSD fixes vulnerabilities and has a an excellent ASLR system compared to the proposed one for FreeBSD. On Aug 9, 2016 3:10 PM, "Roger Marquis" wrote: > Timel

Re: freebsd-update and portsnap users still at risk of compromise

2016-08-10 Thread Big Lebowski
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Matthew Donovan wrote: > You mean operating system as distribution is a Linux term. There's not much > different between HARDENEDBSD and FreeBSD besides that HardenedBSD fixes > vulnerabilities and has a an excellent ASLR system compared to the proposed > one for F

Re: freebsd-update and portsnap users still at risk of compromise

2016-08-10 Thread Franco Fichtner
> On 10 Aug 2016, at 10:50 AM, Big Lebowski wrote: > > With all due respect :) Not really. Feel free to try again. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "f

Re: freebsd-update and portsnap users still at risk of compromise

2016-08-10 Thread Shawn Webb
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 09:50:37AM +0100, Big Lebowski wrote: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Matthew Donovan > wrote: > > > You mean operating system as distribution is a Linux term. There's not much > > different between HARDENEDBSD and FreeBSD besides that HardenedBSD fixes > > vulnerabiliti

Re: freebsd-update and portsnap users still at risk of compromise

2016-08-10 Thread Julian Elischer
On 11/08/2016 1:11 AM, Mail Lists via freebsd-security wrote: sorry but this is blabla and does not come even near to answering the real problem: It appears that freebsd and the US-government is more connected that some of us might like: Not publishing security issues concerning update mech

Re: freebsd-update and portsnap users still at risk of compromise

2016-08-11 Thread Vincent Hoffman-Kazlauskas
For those not on freebsd-announce (or reddit or anywhere else it got posted) "FreeBSD Core statement on recent freebsd-update and related vulnerabilities" https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2016-August/001739.html Vince On 11/08/2016 05:22, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 11/08/2

Re[2]: freebsd-update and portsnap users still at risk of compromise

2016-08-10 Thread Mail Lists via freebsd-ports
sorry but this is blabla and does not come even near to answering the real problem: It appears that freebsd and the US-government is more connected that some of us might like: Not publishing security issues concerning update mechanisms - we all can think WHY freebsd is not eager on this one

Re[2]: freebsd-update and portsnap users still at risk of compromise

2016-08-10 Thread Mail Lists via freebsd-ports
sorry but this is bullshit and does not come even near to answering the real problem: It appears that freebsd and the US-government is more connected that some of us might like: Not publishing security issues concerning update mechanisms - we all can think WHY freebsd is not eager on this o