FreeBSD 12

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

FreeBSD 12 — dovecot-pigeonhole — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 August 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: dovecot-pigeonhole — Sieve excessive resource usage Related CVEs: CVE-2019-11500 CVE-2020-28200 Upstream summary: Dovecot team reports reports: Sieve interpreter is not protected against abusive scripts that claim excessive resource usage. Fixed […]

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FreeBSD 12 — py39-Flask-Cors — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — py39-Flask-Cors — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 August 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: py-Flask-Cors — directory traversal vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2020-25032 Upstream summary: praetorian-colby-morgan reports: An issue was discovered in Flask-CORS (aka CORS Middleware for Flask) before 3.0.9. It allows ../ directory traversal […]

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How to Configure GEOM Mirroring on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure GEOM Mirroring on FreeBSD 12

Introduction Deploying configure geom mirroring 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 base […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — postsrsd — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 24 July 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: postsrsd — Denial of service vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2020-35573 Upstream summary: postsrsd developer reports: PostSRSd could be tricked into consuming a lot of CPU time with an SRS address that […]

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FreeBSD 12 — py36-yaml — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — py36-yaml — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 24 July 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: PyYAML — arbitrary code execution Related CVEs: CVE-2017-18342 CVE-2020-14343 CVE-2020-1747 Upstream summary: A vulnerability was discovered in the PyYAML library in versions before 5.4, where it is susceptible to arbitrary […]

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

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

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 24 July 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Rails — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2020-8162 CVE-2020-8164 CVE-2020-8165 CVE-2020-8166 CVE-2020-8167 Upstream summary: Ruby on Rails blog: Hi everyone! Rails 5.2.4.3 and 6.0.3.1 have been released! These releases contain important […]

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How to Configure GELI Disk Encryption on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure GELI Disk Encryption on FreeBSD 12

Introduction How to Configure GELI Disk Encryption 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 for packet […]

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How to Configure Swap Space on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Swap Space on FreeBSD 12

Introduction FreeBSD 12 is a UNIX-derived operating system renowned for its network stack performance, ZFS integration, and Jail isolation primitives. Setting up configure swap space on freebsd 12 on FreeBSD 12 follows the rc.conf/service(8) paradigm rather than systemd, which means enabling a service and configuring its startup options are done differently from any Linux distribution. […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — libntlm — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 July 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: libntlm — buffer overflow vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2019-17455 Upstream summary: NVD reports: Libntlm through 1.5 relies on a fixed buffer size for tSmbNtlmAuthRequest, tSmbNtlmAuthChallenge, and tSmbNtlmAuthResponse read and write operations, […]

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

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

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 15 July 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: moinmoin — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0708 CVE-2007-0857 CVE-2007-0901 CVE-2007-0902 CVE-2007-2423 CVE-2007-2673 CVE-2008-0780 CVE-2008-0781  +12 more Upstream summary: MoinMoin reports: Security fix for CVE-2020-25074: fix remote code execution via cache […]

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