By JT Pennington
Published May 15, 2019 10:00pm
36 year old UFS bug fixed, a BSD for the road, automatic upgrades with OpenBSD, DTrace ext2fs support in FreeBSD, Dedicated SSH tunnel user, upgrading VMM VMs to OpenBSD 6.5, and more.Headlines36+ year old bug in FFS/UFS discovered and patched
This update eliminates a kernel stack disclosure bug in UFS/FFS directory entries that is caused by uninitialized directory entry padding written to the disk. When the directory entry is written to disk, it is written as a full 32bit entry, and the unused bytes were not initialized, so could possibly...