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Correct me if I'm wrong - but this sounds like you could DoS any FreeBSD server within seconds: basically all server have some TCP service (ssh) and it leaks one mbuf per packet.

* The FreeBSD "base" system can now be installed and managed using the pkg(8) package manager. This is huge! No more freebsd-update! Thank you for the hard work! Can't wait to test…

This sounds great! The site left me a bit confused however. Is it open in respect to software/firmware? Or also the hardware? Can I just build my own with stock components? Somethi…

Quoting https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/openstreetmap-org-curr... Firefishy Forums governance team OpenStreetMap.org and a number of related services are currently offline. 1…

Not doing much dev work at the moment... In the rare event I need to do some file comparisons or git commits I use meld. How does it compare to more novel tools like this? Any tool…

From the qualys advisory ( https://www.qualys.com/2024/07/01/cve-2024-6387/regresshion.... ): With a heap corruption as a primitive, two FILE structures malloc()ated in the heap, a…

We discovered a vulnerability (a signal handler race condition) in OpenSSH's server (sshd): if a client does not authenticate within LoginGraceTime seconds (120 by default, 600 in …

I learned about the vulnerability by the FreeBSD advisory and searched for ssh on hacker news and didn't find the other post... just to find the other post on the front page... wel…

Sorry, duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40843778