From owner-svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 9 07:05:20 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74C40134; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 07:05:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pgj@FreeBSD.org) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 674081C22; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 07:05:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r6975Khl087812; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 07:05:20 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from pgj@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.5/Submit) id r6975KCf087811; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 07:05:20 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201307090705.r6975KCf087811@svn.freebsd.org> From: Gabor Pali Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 07:05:20 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r42203 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the doc tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 07:05:20 -0000 Author: pgj Date: Tue Jul 9 07:05:19 2013 New Revision: 42203 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42203 Log: - Improve entries in response to bjk's and des' (private) feedback Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Tue Jul 9 06:36:51 2013 (r42202) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Tue Jul 9 07:05:19 2013 (r42203) @@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@

On April 15th Dag-Erling Smørgrav and Xin Li took over as security officers for the &os; Project, and the team welcomed - Qing Li back in the team in June. This report briefly + Qing Li back to the team in June. This report briefly summarizes the work of the Security Team from April until the end of June.

@@ -1074,20 +1074,27 @@

FreeBSD-SA-13:06.mmap: Privilege escalation via mmap(), reported by Konstantin Belousov.

+ + +

The Security Team has contributed to the following errata + notices:

FreeBSD-EN-13:02.vtnet: vtnet(4) - network interface issue on QEMU 1.4.0 and later in 8.4-RELEASE, +

FreeBSD-EN-13:02.vtnet: Frames are not properly + forwarded to vtnet(4) when two or more MAC addresses + are configured on QEMU 1.4.0 and later in 8.4-RELEASE, reported by Julian Stecklina.
FreeBSD-EN-13:01.fxp: dhclient(8) utility - issue on fxp(4) network interface in 8.4-RELEASE, - reported by Michael L. Squires.
FreeBSD-EN-13:01.fxp: Initialization of + fxp(4) network interfaces results in an infinite loop + with dhclient(8) in 8.4-RELEASE, reported by Michael + L. Squires.

Per request of Baptiste Daroussin, the Security Team has also - reviewed the source code of Poudriere, the port build and test - system which is planned to be used for producing pkg(8) - ("new-style") packages on the &os; cluster.

Per the request of Baptiste Daroussin, the Security Team has + also reviewed the source code of Poudriere, the port build and + test system which is planned to be used for producing + pkg(8) ("new-style") packages on the &os; cluster.

@@ -1173,10 +1180,11 @@

During the beginning of this quarter, work focused on making the xorg update as robust and stable as possible in - preparation for the merge to ports. As part of this exp-run - were made, to find and resolve regressions and other issues. - Once this was completed, xorg was updated to version - 7.7 on May 25, after more than a year of hard work.

+ preparation for the merge to ports. As a part of this, ports + exp-runs were performed to find and resolve regressions and + other issues. Once this was completed, xorg was + updated to version 7.7 on May 25, after more than a year of hard + work.

After the update, work immediately shifted to focus on updating and patching xorg client libraries, since numerous @@ -1205,16 +1213,16 @@ ATI is more mature, more testing can be done. Port Wayland. The future of graphical environments in open - source operating system seem to be Wayland. This needs to be + source operating system seems to be Wayland. This needs to be ported to &os; so that a wider audience can test it, and so that it eventually can be integrated into the ports tree, perhaps as a replacement for the current xorg. Look into replacements for HAL. HAL is used for - hot-plugging of devices, but it has been long abandoned by Linux. - A replacement, perhaps build on top of devd would be nice to - have. This work should be coordinated with the &os; GNOME and - KDE teams. + hot-plugging of devices, but it has been long abandoned by + Linux. A replacement, perhaps build on top of devd(8), + would be nice to have. This work should be coordinated with the + &os; GNOME and KDE teams.