FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — clamav-milter — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — clamav-milter — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 20 September 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: clamav — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2019-12625 CVE-2019-12900 Upstream summary: Micah Snyder reports: An out of bounds write was possible within ClamAV&s NSIS bzip2 library when attempting decompression in cases […]

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FreeBSD 12 — freetype — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — freetype — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 20 September 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: freetype2 — heap buffer overlfow Related CVEs: CVE-2006-0747 CVE-2006-1861 CVE-2006-3467 CVE-2007-2754 CVE-2008-1806 CVE-2008-1807 CVE-2008-1808 CVE-2009-0946  +12 more Upstream summary: The freetype project reports: A heap buffer overflow has been found […]

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How to Set Up FTP Server with vsftpd on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up FTP Server with vsftpd on FreeBSD 12

Introduction How to Set Up FTP Server with vsftpd on FreeBSD 12 is a core administration task for any FreeBSD 12 server operator. FreeBSD 12 ships with the 15.0-RELEASE kernel, ZFS as the default root filesystem, Capsicum capability sandboxing improvements, and an updated ports tree. Unlike Linux distributions, FreeBSD uses rc(8) for service management, pf […]

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FreeBSD 12 — ap24-mod_jk — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — ap24-mod_jk — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 19 September 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: mod_jk — information disclosure Related CVEs: CVE-2014-8111 Upstream summary: NIST reports: Apache Tomcat Connectors (mod_jk) before 1.2.41 ignores JkUnmount rules for subtrees of previous JkMount rules, which allows remote attackers […]

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FreeBSD 12 — lbreakout — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — lbreakout — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 19 September 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: lbreakout2 vulnerability in environment variable handling Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0158 Upstream summary: Ulf Härnhammar discovered an exploitable vulnerability in lbreakout2's environmental variable handling. In several instances, the contents of the HOME […]

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FreeBSD 12 — rubygem-railties — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — rubygem-railties — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 19 September 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: rails — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2013-4491 CVE-2013-6414 CVE-2013-6415 CVE-2013-6416 CVE-2013-6417 Upstream summary: Rails weblog: Rails 3.2.16 and 4.0.2 have been released! These two releases contain important security fixes, so […]

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FreeBSD 12 — dhcpcd — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — dhcpcd — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 18 September 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: dhcpcd — remote code execution/denial of service Related CVEs: CVE-2014-7912 CVE-2014-7913 CVE-2016-1503 CVE-2016-1504 Upstream summary: MITRE reports: The get_option function in dhcp.c in dhcpcd before 6.2.0, as used in dhcpcd […]

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FreeBSD 12 — rubygem-sanitize — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — rubygem-sanitize — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 September 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Sanitize — XSS vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2018-3740 Upstream summary: Sanitize release: Fixed an HTML injection vulnerability that could allow XSS. When Sanitize <= 4.6.2 is used in combination with libxml2 […]

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How to Perform a Security Audit on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Perform a Security Audit on FreeBSD 12

Introduction Deploying perform a security audit on freebsd 12 on a FreeBSD 12 machine differs from Linux in several important ways: packages come from the FreeBSD Ports Collection or the binary pkg repository, services are registered in /etc/rc.conf via sysrc(8), and firewall rules are written in pf.conf(5) syntax. This tutorial stays entirely within the standard […]

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FreeBSD 12 — py37-buildbot — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — py37-buildbot — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 September 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: buildbot — OAuth Authentication Vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2019-12300 CVE-2019-7313 Upstream summary: Buildbot accepted user-submitted authorization token from OAuth and used it to authenticate user. The vulnerability can lead to malicious […]

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