Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:18:18 +0000 (UTC) From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r278922 - head Message-ID: <201502172118.t1HLIIRj041816@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: jmg Date: Tue Feb 17 21:18:17 2015 New Revision: 278922 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/278922 Log: note that you should update your kernel due to RNG issue, and what versions you should upgrade... Suggested by: Ryan Stone Modified: head/UPDATING Modified: head/UPDATING ============================================================================== --- head/UPDATING Tue Feb 17 21:12:45 2015 (r278921) +++ head/UPDATING Tue Feb 17 21:18:17 2015 (r278922) @@ -31,6 +31,14 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 11 disable the most expensive debugging functionality run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".) +20150217: + If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014), + but before r278907, the RNG was not seeded properly. Immediately + upgrade the kernel to r278907 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g. + ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that + range. This does not effect programs that directly used /dev/random + or /dev/urandom. All userland uses of arc4random(3) are effected. + 20150210: The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility with 10.1-RELEASE. The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work
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