Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 21:46:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> To: Gabor Pali <pgj@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, doc-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r42183 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1307072141460.26275@multics.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <201307070533.r675XX5J058777@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201307070533.r675XX5J058777@svn.freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 7 Jul 2013, Gabor Pali wrote: > Author: pgj > Date: Sun Jul 7 05:33:33 2013 > New Revision: 42183 > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42183 > > Log: > - Add a Q2 entry for secteam > > Submitted by: gnn > > 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 Sat Jul 6 23:15:13 2013 (r42182) > +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Sun Jul 7 05:33:33 2013 (r42183) > @@ -1037,4 +1037,51 @@ > <task>Fix <tt>x11-themes/gtk-xfce-engine</tt> with Gtk+ >=3.6.</task> > </help> > </project> > + > + <project cat='team'> > + <title>&os; Security Team</title> > + > + <contact> > + <person> > + <name> > + <given>&os; Security Team</given> > + </name> > + <email>secteam@FreeBSD.org</email> > + </person> > + </contact> > + > + <links/> > + > + <body> > + <p>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 "back to the team" is probably better. > + summarizes the work of the Security Team from April until the > + end of June.</p> > + > + <p>The Security Team has released the following advisories:</p> > + > + <ul> > + <li><tt>FreeBSD-SA-13:05.nfsserver</tt>: Insufficient input > + validation in the NFS server (<tt>nfsd(8)</tt>), reported by > + Adam Nowacki.</li> > + > + <li><tt>FreeBSD-SA-13:06.mmap</tt>: Privilege escalation via > + <tt>mmap()</tt>, reported by Konstantin Belousov.</li> > + > + <li><tt>FreeBSD-EN-13:02.vtnet</tt>: <tt>vtnet(4)</tt> > + network interface issue on QEMU 1.4.0 and later in 8.4-RELEASE, > + reported by Julian Stecklina.</li> > + > + <li><tt>FreeBSD-EN-13:01.fxp</tt>: <tt>dhclient(8)</tt> utility > + issue on <tt>fxp(4)</tt> network interface in 8.4-RELEASE, > + reported by Michael L. Squires.</li> > + </ul> "vtnet network interface issue" and "dhclient utility issue" are rather odd phrasings that convey little information about the actual issue. I don't remember the actual problems offhand, but I expect that a rewording is possible which better indicates the nature of the problem. > + <p>Per request of Baptiste Daroussin, the Security Team has also "Per the request"? -Ben > + reviewed the source code of Poudriere, the port build and test > + system which is planned to be used for producing <tt>pkg(8)</tt> > + ("new-style") packages on the &os; cluster.</p> > + </body> > + </project> > </report> >
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