🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 1 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read • Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: gnome-screensaver — Multiple monitor hotplug issues Related CVEs: CVE-2010-0414 CVE-2010-0422 Upstream summary: Ray Strode reports: Under certain circumstances it is possible to circumvent the security of screen locking functionality of […]
Introduction How to Perform a CIS Benchmark Audit on FreeBSD 15 is a core administration task for any FreeBSD 15 server operator. FreeBSD 15 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 […]
Introduction This guide explains how to Install Elasticsearch on FreeBSD 15 on FreeBSD 15. 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 fine-grained privilege separation. […]
Introduction This guide explains how to Configure MySQL InnoDB Tuning on FreeBSD 15 on FreeBSD 15. 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 fine-grained […]
Introduction Deploying configure rate limiting in nginx on a FreeBSD 15 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 + […]
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 30 April 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read • Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: proxychains-ng — current path as the first directory for the library search path Related CVEs: CVE-2015-3887 Upstream summary: Mamoru TASAKA reports: proxychains4 sets LD_PRELOAD to dlopen libproxychains4.so and execvp() the […]
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 30 April 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read • Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: xtrlock — xtrlock does not block multitouch events Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0079 CVE-2016-10894 Upstream summary: Debian reports: xtrlock did not block multitouch events so an attacker could still input and thus […]
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 30 April 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read • Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ppxp — local root exploit Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0392 Upstream summary: A Debian Advisory reports: Jens Steube discovered that ppxp, yet another PPP program, does not release root privileges when opening […]
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 30 April 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read • Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: expat2 — Parser crash with specially formatted UTF-8 sequences Related CVEs: CVE-2009-3720 Upstream summary: CVE reports: The updatePosition function in lib/xmltok_impl.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in Python, […]
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 30 April 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read • Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: xine — multiple remote string vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2006-1905 Upstream summary: c0ntexb reports: There are 2 format string bugs in the latest version of Xine that could be exploited by […]
