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Merry Christmas from FreeBSDMerry Christmas from FreeBSD
[Security] Posted Dec 23, 2011 17:47 UTC (Fri) by corbet
The FreeBSD security team has sent out a holiday card of sorts to its users. "No, the Grinch didn't steal the FreeBSD security officer GPG key, and your eyes aren't deceiving you: We really did just send out 5 security advisories." The motivating factor appears to be this vulnerability in telnetd; anybody who exposes a telnet port to the net on FreeBSD is currently open to a remote root exploit. The number of LWN readers doing so must be tiny (if, indeed, it's nonzero), but it seems worthwhile to get the word out there anyway.
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