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ronjor
October 5th, 2009, 06:10 PM
-{ Quote: "5 October 2009, 13:34

The FreeBSD developers have released new updates to their operating system to close three vulnerabilities." }-The H Security (http://www.h-online.com/security/FreeBSD-security-update--/news/114389)
Mrkvonic
October 6th, 2009, 03:22 AM
Finally some vulnerabilities in BSD, I thought the OS was designed by aliens :)
Mrk
chronomatic
October 6th, 2009, 07:15 PM
-{ Quote: "Finally some vulnerabilities in BSD, I thought the OS was designed by aliens :)
Mrk" }-

You're thinking about OpenBSD. This is a FreeBSD vulnerability.

To change the subject: I wonder if these vulns have anything to do with the slough of recent Linux kernel NULL dereference vulns? I wonder if there is some shared code between the BSD and Linux kernels? Or perhaps BSD security researchers began looking for BSD NULL dereference vulns in light of the recent Linux kernel vulns?