The ZFS Intent Log ("ZIL") is a mechanism that gathers together in memory transactions of writes, and is flushed onto disk when synchronous semantics is necessary. In the event of crash or power failure, the log is examined and the uncommitted transaction would be replayed to maintain the synchronous semantics …
The ntpd(8) daemon is an implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) used to synchronize the time of a computer system to a reference time source.
Problem description
If ntpd receives a mode 7 (MODE_PRIVATE) request or error response from a source address not listed in either a 'restrict …
BIND 9 is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. The named(8) daemon is an Internet Domain Name Server.
DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) provides data integrity, origin authentication and authenticated denial of existence to resolvers.
Problem description
If a client requests DNSSEC records with the Checking Disabled …
Kingcope discovered and posted on Full-disclosure that the Run-Time Link-Editor (rtld) in recent FreeBSD versions has a dangerous bug. An attacker can trick rtld to accept a manipulated LD_PRELOAD environment variable even when executing setugid binaries like "ping" or "su".
The FreeBSD Security Officer Colin Percival reacted quckly with a …
FreeBSD 8.0 is available for download on the ftp servers. Please note that at the time as we are writing this, there's not yet an official statement on the FreeBSD website.
This release brings an overhauled USB stack, a new partition class called slices and NFSv4.
The old USB …