Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:15:10 -1000 From: Jonathon Wright <jonathon.s.wright@gmail.com> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD Transient Memory problem? Message-ID: <CAGX1DMbQP=TggYQm-3hra0Od3gjgz5xQ8bEMMrueuhL6kuZMUA@mail.gmail.com>
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All, I have posted this question (username-scryptkiddy) in the forums: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=41875 but was suggested to bring it here to the mailing list for discussion. Basically, FreeBSD 8.3 (64bit) is what we use in our shop. We were inspected by a security team and they had issues with FreeBSD's memory management. Namely the transient memory and object reuse areas of FreeBSD. They claimed that FreeBSD did not have a Common Criteria (EAL1-4) evaluation completed, and therefore was vulnerable to the Transient memory problem. Our higher ups need some sort of documentation / testing that can be used to counter this, since changing Operating Systems is not something we have time / manpower to do, but might have too based on this supposed 'finding'. The post has all the details. Let me know I need to repost in this as well. JW
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