BSD Link Roundup 8.17

A whole lot of summer BSD news for the month of August, enjoy and BSD away!

FreeBSD Getting Close To Finally Migrating Development From Subversion To Git via Phoronix

FreeBSD Fridays via FreeBSD Foundation

Tutorial sites treating FreeBSD like a Linux distro via Rubenerd

FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE Now Available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace via BSDSec

I’m back into the grind of FreeBSD’s wireless stack and 802.11ac via Adrian Chadd

FreeBSD Back To Seeing Progress On 802.11ac WiFi Support, Ath10k Driver via Phoronix

Hardware support in FreeBSD is not so bad: over 90% of popular hardware is supported! via FreeBSD Forums

FreeBSD Security Advisories below:

FreeBSD : clamav — multiple vulnerabilities (f7a02651-c798-11ea-81d6-6805cabe6ebb) via Tenable

FreeBSD : OpenEXR/ilmbase 2.5.2 — patch release with various bug/security fixes (714e6c35-c75b-11ea-aa29-d74973d1f9f3) via Tenable

FreeBSD : jenkins — multiple vulnerabilities (1ddab5cb-14c9-4632-959f-802c412a9593) via Tenable

FreeBSD : VirtualBox — Multiple vulnerabilities (1e7b316b-c6a8-11ea-a7d5-001999f8d30b) via Tenable

FreeBSD : Python — multiple vulnerabilities (a9eeb3a3-ca5e-11ea-930b-080027846a02) via Tenable

FreeBSD : pango — buffer overflow (456375e1-cd09-11ea-9172-4c72b94353b5) via Tenable

FreeBSD : Apache Tomcat — Multiple Vulnerabilities (6a72eff7-ccd6-11ea-9172-4c72b94353b5) via Tenable

FreeBSD : chromium — multiple vulnerabilities (9a447f78-d0f8-11ea-9837-e09467587c17) via Tenable

FreeBSD : libsndfile — out-of-bounds read memory access (086c96cd-d0cb-11ea-b922-5404a68ad561) via Tenable

FreeBSD : Cacti — multiple vulnerabilities (cd2dc126-cfe4-11ea-9172-4c72b94353b5) via FreeBSD

FreeBSD: VID-E333084C-9588-4EEE-8BDC-323E02CB4FE0: zeek — Various vulnerabilities via Rapid7

FreeBSD : ark — directory traversal (d1ef1138-d273-11ea-a757-e0d55e2a8bf9) via Tenable

FreeBSD : zeek — Various vulnerabilities (e333084c-9588-4eee-8bdc-323e02cb4fe0) via Tenable

FreeBSD : bftpd — Multiple vulnerabilities (6b6de127-db0b-11ea-ba1e-1c39475b9f84) via Tenable

FreeBSD : puppetdb — Multiple vulnerabilities (10e3ed8a-db7f-11ea-8bdf-643150d3111d) via Tenable

FreeBSD : chromium — multiple vulnerabilities (1110e286-dc08-11ea-beed-e09467587c17) via Tenable

FreeBSD : jenkins — multiple vulnerabilities (eef0d2d9-78c0-441e-8b03-454c5baebe20) via Tenable

FreeBSD : mail/dovecot — multiple vulnerabilities (87a07de1-e55e-4d51-bb64-8d117829a26a) via Tenable

FreeBSD : ilmbase, openexr — v2.5.3 is a patch release with various bug/security fixes (b1d6b383-dd51-11ea-a688-7b12871ef3ad) via Tenable

FreeBSD : Apache httpd — Multiple vulnerabilities (76700d2f-d959-11ea-b53c-d4c9ef517024) via Tenable

FreeBSD : trafficserver — resource consumption (6fd773d3-bc5a-11ea-b38d-f0def1d0c3ea) via Tenable

FreeBSD: VID-9A447F78-D0F8-11EA-9837-E09467587C17 (CVE-2020-6532): chromium — multiple vulnerabilities via Rapid7

FreeBSD — Potential memory corruption in USB network device drivers via VuXML

FreeBSD — sendmsg(2) privilege escalation via VuXML

FreeBSD : FreeBSD — sendmsg(2) privilege escalation (8db74c04-d794-11ea-88f8-901b0ef719ab) via Tenable

FreeBSD : typo3 — multiple vulnerabilities (eab964f8-d632-11ea-9172-4c72b94353b5) via Tenable

FreeBSD : FreeBSD — Potential memory corruption in USB network device drivers (9eb01384-d793-11ea-88f8-901b0ef719ab) via Tenable

FreeBSD : go — encoding/binary: ReadUvarint and ReadVarint can read an unlimited number of bytes from invalid inputs (bc7aff8c-d806-11ea-a5aa-0800272260e5) via Tenable

FreeBSD : Gitlab — Multiple Vulnerabilities (a003b74f-d7b3-11ea-9df1-001b217b3468) via Tenable

FreeBSD : xorg-server — Pixel Data Uninitialized Memory Information Disclosure (3c7ba82a-d3fb-11ea-9aba-0c9d925bbbc0) via Tenable

FreeBSD : Python — multiple vulnerabilities (7d7221ee-d334-11ea-bc50-080027846a02) via Tenable

FreeBSD : libX11 — Heap corruption in the X input method client in libX11 (6faa7feb-d3fa-11ea-9aba-0c9d925bbbc0) via Tenable