FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE Errata

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This document lists errata items for FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE, containing significant information discovered after the release or too late in the release cycle to be otherwise included in the release documentation. This information includes security advisories, as well as news relating to the software or documentation that could affect its operation or usability. An up-to-date version of this document should always be consulted before installing this version of FreeBSD.

This errata document for FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE will be maintained until the EoL of FreeBSD 8.4-STABLE branch.


1 Introduction

This errata document contains “late-breaking news” about FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE. Before installing this version, it is important to consult this document to learn about any post-release discoveries or problems that may already have been found and fixed.

Any version of this errata document actually distributed with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on the Internet and should be consulted as the “current errata” for this release. These other copies of the errata are located at http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/, plus any sites which keep up-to-date mirrors of this location.

Source and binary snapshots of FreeBSD 8.4-STABLE also contain up-to-date copies of this document (as of the time of the snapshot).

For a list of all FreeBSD CERT security advisories, see http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/ or ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/.


2 Security Advisories

The following security advisories pertain to FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE. For more information, consult the individual advisories available from http://security.FreeBSD.org/.

Advisory Date Topic
SA-12:01.openssl 03 May 2012

OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities

SA-12:02.crypt 30 May 2012

Incorrect crypt() hashing

SA-12:03.bind 12 June 2012

Incorrect handling of zero-length RDATA fields in named(8)

SA-12:04.sysret 12 June 2012

Privilege escalation when returning from kernel

SA-12:05.bind 06 August 2012

named(8) DNSSEC validation Denial of Service

SA-12:06.bind 22 November 2012

Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities with named(8)

SA-12:07.hostapd 22 November 2012

Insufficient message length validation for EAP-TLS messages

SA-12:08.linux 22 November 2012

Linux compatibility layer input validation error

SA-13:02.libc 19 February 2013

glob(3) related resource exhaustion

SA-13:03.openssl 02 April 2013

OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities

SA-13:04.bind 02 April 2013

BIND remote denial of service

SA-13:05.nfsserver 29 April 2013

Insufficient input validation in the NFS server


3 Open Issues

No open issue.


4 Late-Breaking News and Corrections

No news.


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