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How To Customize and Recompile Your Kernel on FreeBSD 10.1 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Customize and Recompile Your Kernel on FreeBSD 10.1

The FreeBSD operating system utilizes the GENERIC kernel by default. This is a default configuration used to support a large variety of hardware out of the box. However, there are many different reasons for compiling a custom kernel, which include security, enhanced functionality, or better performance.

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FreeBSD 13 — avahi-qt — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — avahi-qt — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 3 September 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: avahi — denial of service Related CVEs: CVE-2010-2244 CVE-2011-1002 Upstream summary: Avahi developers reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Avahi, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause […]

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FreeBSD 13 — php71-mbstring — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — php71-mbstring — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 2 September 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: oniguruma — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2017-9224 CVE-2017-9226 CVE-2017-9227 CVE-2017-9228 Upstream summary: the PHP project reports: A stack out-of-bounds read occurs in match_at() during regular expression searching. A logical error […]

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FreeBSD 13 — kibana — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — kibana — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 September 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: kibana4 — XSS vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2015-8131 Upstream summary: Elastic reports: Fixes XSS vulnerability (CVE pending) – Thanks to Vladimir Ivanov for responsibly reporting. Table of contents Symptom & Impact […]

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FreeBSD 13 — junkbuster-zlib — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — junkbuster-zlib — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 September 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: junkbuster — heap corruption vulnerability and configuration modification vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2005-1108 CVE-2005-1109 Upstream summary: A Debian advisory reports: James Ranson discovered that an attacker can modify the referrer setting […]

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FreeBSD 13 — gd — multiple vulnerabilities (13 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — gd — multiple vulnerabilities (13 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 2 September 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: libgd — integer overflow which could lead to heap buffer overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0990 CVE-2007-3472 CVE-2007-3473 CVE-2007-3474 CVE-2007-3475 CVE-2007-3476 CVE-2007-3477 CVE-2007-3478  +5 more Upstream summary: LibGD reports: An integer overflow […]

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FreeBSD 13 — cdrdao — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — cdrdao — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 September 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: cdrdao — unspecified privilege escalation vulnerability Upstream summary: The developers of cdrdao report that there is a potential root exploit in the software. In order to be able to succesfully […]

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FreeBSD 13 — weechat-devel — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — weechat-devel — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 1 September 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: weechat — Arbitrary shell command execution via scripts Related CVEs: CVE-2012-5854 Upstream summary: Sebastien Helleu reports: Untrusted command for function hook_process could lead to execution of commands, because of shell […]

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FreeBSD 13 — chasen — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — chasen — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 1 September 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ChaSen — buffer overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2011-4000 Upstream summary: JVN iPedia reports: ChaSen provided by Nara Institute of Science and Technology is a software for morphologically analyzing Japanese. ChaSen contains […]

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