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This document lists errata items for FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE, containing significant information discovered after the release or too late in the release cycle to be otherwise included in the release documentation. This information includes security advisories, as well as news relating to the software or documentation that could affect its operation or usability. An up-to-date version of this document should always be consulted before installing this version of FreeBSD.
This errata document for FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE will be maintained until the EoL of FreeBSD 8.4-STABLE branch.
This errata document contains “late-breaking news” about FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE. Before installing this version, it is important to consult this document to learn about any post-release discoveries or problems that may already have been found and fixed.
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Source and binary snapshots of FreeBSD 8.4-STABLE also contain up-to-date copies of this document (as of the time of the snapshot).
For a list of all FreeBSD CERT security advisories, see http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/ or ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/.
The following security advisories pertain to FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE. For more information, consult the individual advisories available from http://security.FreeBSD.org/.
| Advisory | Date | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| SA-12:01.openssl | 03 May 2012 |
OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities |
| SA-12:02.crypt | 30 May 2012 |
Incorrect crypt() hashing |
| SA-12:03.bind | 12 June 2012 |
Incorrect handling of zero-length RDATA fields in named(8) |
| SA-12:04.sysret | 12 June 2012 |
Privilege escalation when returning from kernel |
| SA-12:05.bind | 06 August 2012 |
named(8) DNSSEC validation Denial of Service |
| SA-12:06.bind | 22 November 2012 |
Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities with named(8) |
| SA-12:07.hostapd | 22 November 2012 |
Insufficient message length validation for EAP-TLS messages |
| SA-12:08.linux | 22 November 2012 |
Linux compatibility layer input validation error |
| SA-13:02.libc | 19 February 2013 |
glob(3) related resource exhaustion |
| SA-13:03.openssl | 02 April 2013 |
OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities |
| SA-13:04.bind | 02 April 2013 |
BIND remote denial of service |
| SA-13:05.nfsserver | 29 April 2013 |
Insufficient input validation in the NFS server |
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