🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 12 December 2023 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read • Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: vim6 — heap-based overflow while parsing shell metacharacters Related CVEs: CVE-2008-3432 Upstream summary: Description for CVE-2008-3432 says: Heap-based buffer overflow in the mch_expand_wildcards function in os_unix.c in Vim 6.2 and […]
Introduction Deploying configure ssl/tls with openssl on freebsd 14 on a FreeBSD 14 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 […]
Introduction Deploying set up vlan tagging on freebsd 14 on a FreeBSD 14 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 […]
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 11 December 2023 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read • Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Borg (Backup) — flaw in cryptographic authentication scheme in Borg allowed an attacker to fake archives and indirectly cause backup data loss. Related CVEs: CVE-2023-36811 Upstream summary: Thomas Waldmann reports: […]
Introduction This guide explains how to Set Up Alertmanager with Slack on FreeBSD 14 on FreeBSD 14. FreeBSD uses the pkg(8) binary package manager, rc.conf(5) for service startup configuration, and pf(4) as its primary packet filter. There is no SELinux or AppArmor — instead, FreeBSD provides the MAC (Mandatory Access Control) framework and Capsicum for […]
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 11 December 2023 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read • Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: x11/cde — Local privilege escalation via CDE dtsession Related CVEs: CVE-2020-2696 Upstream summary: Marco Ivaldi (marco.ivaldi () mediaservice net) reports: A buffer overflow in the CheckMonitor() function in the Common […]
Introduction How to Harden Web Servers on FreeBSD 14 is a core administration task for any FreeBSD 14 server operator. FreeBSD 14 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 filtering, […]
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 11 December 2023 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read • Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Teamspeak Server — Directory Traversal Vulnerability Upstream summary: SecurityFocus reports: TeamSpeak is prone to a directory-traversal vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input data. Exploiting the issue may […]
Introduction FreeBSD 14 is a UNIX-derived operating system renowned for its network stack performance, ZFS integration, and Jail isolation primitives. Setting up install rabbitmq on freebsd 14 on FreeBSD 14 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. This […]
Introduction Deploying configure lvm on freebsd 14 on a FreeBSD 14 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 + […]
