From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 23 15:55:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 435061065675 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:55:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces+73574-f30d-freebsd-security=freebsd.org@sendgrid.me) Received: from o2.shared.sendgrid.net (o2.shared.sendgrid.net [74.63.235.152]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E64D08FC2F for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:55:55 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sendgrid.info; h= message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpapi; bh=o9egWwO1A 5ASnxqUfKgGjDaNzbM=; b=rSpJ/1DX1v89oOspMXZsFtyLKHkVKoWOpc/cq+7Ri Yy4PvCLGkjtGupCHgS08xF2BRkVENA9QRXmEBi4wpeMAemezW17GGc9O/fb/G9lg exOzn3Y5szRKPjzBoeAbrj6GzBkhhaCYjVV8H8mkERQsV8lQQvyKJEKEDha3vdv9 Dw= Received: by 10.41.149.161 with SMTP id f04-26.22365.4EF4A106D Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:40:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.tarsnap.com (unknown [10.41.149.212]) by i04-01 (SG) with ESMTP id 4ef4a053.5ecc.208b3b1 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:37:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 74105 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2011 15:41:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO clamshell.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by mail.tarsnap.com with ESMTP; 23 Dec 2011 15:41:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 60846 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2011 15:41:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO clamshell.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by clamshell.daemonology.net with SMTP; 23 Dec 2011 15:41:20 -0000 Message-ID: <4EF4A120.1000305@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:41:20 -0800 From: FreeBSD Security Officer Organization: FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111112 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: undefined Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sendgrid-EID: 5qVSvszVOIE6PbdhSmXigMotnDv2KVF2pFB0fKg9Jzq2syuD2XJCVRnNIJhoirEw7gUo9D5tPiMQSfiIMa5zmbO5rEtmnmKiHfeUFzISWNhLy2NOaoo2WtXzsc5mcoeZLbyE9kQ4StohwTR0uig2WvU9Y1BF1lEd1iGpvo30obU= Subject: Merry Christmas from the FreeBSD Security Team X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: security-officer@FreeBSD.org List-Id: "Security issues \[members-only posting\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:55:56 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, 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 timing, to put it bluntly, sucks. We normally aim to release advisories on Wednesdays in order to maximize the number of system administrators who will be at work already; and we try very hard to avoid issuing advisories any time close to holidays for the same reason. The start of the Christmas weekend -- in some parts of the world it's already Saturday -- is absolutely not when we want to be releasing security advisories. Unfortunately my hand was forced: One of the issues (FreeBSD-SA-11:08.telnetd) is a remote root vulnerability which is being actively exploited in the wild; bugs really don't come any worse than this. On the positive side, most people have moved past telnet and on to SSH by now; but this is still not an issue we could postpone until a more convenient time. While I'm writing, a note to freebsd-update users: FreeBSD-SA-11:07.chroot has a rather messy fix involving adding a new interface to libc; this has the awkward side effect of causing the sizes of some "symbols" (aka. functions) in libc to change, resulting in cascading changes into many binaries. The long list of updated files is irritating, but isn't a sign that anything in freebsd-update went wrong. - -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk70oR8ACgkQFdaIBMps37IHEwCeNT8dws04qyJ8yuOz7g2xd9Xs IsoAn0QfaSE6i90zFBuk1k0isvrDMYO3 =p94J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----