http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/529 <pre>Dear all, please be advised that the machine hosting www.NetBSD.org, gnats.NetBSD.org and mail-index.NetBSD.org has a mainboard fault. www.NetBSD.org is currently being served by a mirror, gnats has been moved to a different server, and mail-index will also be moved. Since this is no planned action, it will take up to a day until nameserver caches clear and you see the current incumbents. Also, services may show some missing features until we get around to fixing everything. best regards, spz </pre> S.P.Zeidler 2013-05-21T19:07:47 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/528 <pre>NetBSD 6.1 (and 6.0.2!) Released The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Simultaneously, the NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.0.2, the second security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, without new features. For more details, please see the 6.1 release notes and the 6.0.2 release notes. Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 6.1 and 6.0.2 are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, SUP, and other services may be found at http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/ . </pre> riz< at >NetBSD.org 2013-05-18T20:28:45 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/527 <pre>Hi, cvsweb.NetBSD.org had been updated every 6 hours. I have modified cvsweb.NetBSD.org's ctontab and its repository is updated hourly now. Now I am watching its load. If you found a problem. Please tell me. Thank you. -- Ryo ONODERA // ryoon&lt; at &gt;NetBSD.org PGP fingerprint = 82A2 DC91 76E0 A10A 8ABB FD1B F404 27FA C7D1 15F3 </pre> Ryo ONODERA 2013-04-27T12:51:21 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/526 <pre>Dear members of the NetBSD community, EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for users and developers of BSD-based systems. The conference will take place Thursday, September 26 through Sunday, September 29 at the Hilton (http://goo.gl/maps/hnACd) in St. Julian's, Malta (tutorials on Thursday and Friday, talks on Saturday and Sunday). Call for Talk Proposals ----------------------- The EuroBSDcon program committee is inviting BSD developers and users to submit innovative and original talk proposals not previously presented at other European conferences. Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to applications, architecture, implementation, performance and security of BSD-based operating systems, as well as topics concerning the economic or organizational aspects of BSD use. Presentations are expected to be 45 minutes and are to be delivered in English. Call for Tutorial Proposals --------------------------- The EuroBSDcon program committee is also inviting qualified p</pre> Joerg Sonnenberger 2013-03-28T15:07:46 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/525 <pre>We're proud to announce the pkgsrc-2013Q1 release, the 50th quarterly pkgsrc release. For more information, please see http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2013/04/01/msg011015.html Thomas </pre> Thomas Klausner 2013-04-01T15:55:34 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/524 <pre> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 NetBSD Security Advisory 2013-003 ================================= Topic:RNG Bug May Result in Weak Cryptographic Keys (REVISED) Version:NetBSD-current:affected prior to Mar 29th, 2013 NetBSD 6.0.1:affected NetBSD 6.0:affected NetBSD 5.2.*:not affected NetBSD 5.1.*:not affected Severity:Cryptography Weakness Fixed:NetBSD-current:Mar 29th, 2013 NetBSD-6-0 branch:Mar 29th, 2013 NetBSD-6 branch:Mar 26th, 2013 NetBSD 6.1 will contain the fix. NetBSD 6.0.2 will contain the fix. Please note that NetBSD releases prior to 5.1 are no longer supported. It is recommended that all users upgrade to a supported release. Abstract ======== Due to a programming error, pseudorandom numbers supplied with a warning of "insufficient entropy at creation" may only contain sizeof(int) bytes (32 or 64 bits) of cryptographic randomness. The first attempt to fix this bug, on January 26, 2013, contained a different programming error with </pre> NetBSD Security-Officer 2013-03-30T00:25:40 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/523 <pre>Announcing NetBSD 6.1 Release Candidate 2 The second release candidate of NetBSD 6.1 is now available for download at: http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.1_RC2/ NetBSD 6.1 will be the first feature update for the NetBSD 6 branch. There are many new drivers, some new features, and many bug fixes! Fixes since RC1 include: - Various terminfo fixes (PR#46793, PR#47090, PR#47490, PR#47532) - Fixed a segfault in awk(1) (PR#47553) - Moved boottime50 and its associated sysctl into the compat module. (PR#47579) - Updated tzdata to 2013b, with the latest timezone info - Fixed a crash when the security.curtain sysctl is enabled (PR#47598) - Fixed some IPF locking issues - Fix a crash on statically-linked programs for NetBSD/alpha A complete list of changes can be found at: http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.1_RC2/CHANGES-6.1 Please help us test this and any upcoming release candidates as much as possible. Remember, any feedback is good feedback. We'd love to hear from you, whether you've got a compl</pre> riz< at >NetBSD.org 2013-03-18T18:31:52 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/522 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 NetBSD Security Advisory 2013-003 ================================= Topic:RNG Bug May Result in Weak Cryptographic Keys Version:NetBSD-current:affected prior to Jan 26th, 2013 NetBSD 6.0.*:affected NetBSD 6.0:affected NetBSD 5.2.*:not affected NetBSD 5.1.*:not affected Severity:Cryptography Weakness Fixed:NetBSD-current:Jan 26th, 2013 NetBSD-6-0 branch:Jan 26th, 2013 NetBSD-6 branch:Jan 26th, 2013 NetBSD 6.1 will contain the fix. Please note that NetBSD releases prior to 5.1 are no longer supported. It is recommended that all users upgrade to a supported release. Abstract ======== Due to a programming error, pseudorandom numbers supplied with a warning of "insufficient entropy at creation" may only contain sizeof(int) bits of cryptographic randomness. Technical Details ================= When the kernel boots, it creates several instances of the kernel random number generator very early. Additional random number </pre> NetBSD Security Officer 2013-03-07T21:46:37 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/521 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 NetBSD Security Advisory 2013-004 ================================= Topic:Vulnerabilities in grep Version:NetBSD-current:affected prior to Jan 5th, 2013 NetBSD 6.0.*:affected NetBSD 6.0:affected NetBSD 5.2.*:affected NetBSD 5.1.*:affected NetBSD 5.0.*:affected pkgsrc:textproc/grep prior to 2.13 Severity:Arbitrary Code Execution Fixed:NetBSD-current:Jan 5th, 2013 NetBSD-6-0 branch:Jan 13th, 2013 NetBSD-6 branch:Jan 13th, 2013 NetBSD-5-2 branch:Jan 13th, 2013 NetBSD-5-1 branch:Jan 13th, 2013 NetBSD-5-0 branch:Jan 13th, 2013 NetBSD-5 branch:Jan 13th, 2013 pkgsrc textproc/grep:grep-2.13 corrects this issue Please note that NetBSD releases prior to 5.0 are no longer supported. It is recommended that all users upgrade to a supported release. Abstract ======== Multiple integer overflows in GNU Grep before 2.11 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a </pre> NetBSD Security Officer 2013-02-26T23:39:46 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/520 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 NetBSD Security Advisory 2013-002 ================================= Topic:kqueue related kernel panic triggered from userland Version:NetBSD-current:affected prior to Nov 24th, 2012 NetBSD 6.0:affected NetBSD 6.0.1:not affected NetBSD 5.1.*:not affected NetBSD 5.0.*:not affected NetBSD 5.0:not affected Severity:Local system crash Fixed:NetBSD-current:Nov 24th, 2012 NetBSD-6-0 branch:Nov 24th, 2012 NetBSD-6 branch:Nov 24th, 2012 Please note that NetBSD releases prior to 5.0 are no longer supported. It is recommended that all users upgrade to a supported release. Abstract ======== A user can panic the machine by calling kevent(2) on an unsupported file descriptor. Technical Details ================= A file descriptor that does not support kqueue(2) uses fnullop_kqfilter(9) to indicate that this operation is not supported. Unfortunately fnullop_kqfilter(9) returned 0 instead of an error, so the kernel crashed in </pre> NetBSD Security Officer 2013-02-26T23:38:59 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/519 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 NetBSD Security Advisory 2013-003 ================================= Topic:Pseudo-Random bits weaker than expected Version:NetBSD-current:affected prior to Jan 26th, 2013 NetBSD 6.0.*:affected NetBSD 6.0:affected NetBSD 5.2.*:not affected NetBSD 5.1.*:not affected Severity:Cryptography Weakness Fixed:NetBSD-current:Jan 26th, 2013 NetBSD-6-0 branch:Jan 26th, 2013 NetBSD-6 branch:Jan 26th, 2013 NetBSD 6.1 will contain the fix. Please note that NetBSD releases prior to 5.1 are no longer supported. It is recommended that all users upgrade to a supported release. Abstract ======== Due to a programming error, pseudorandom numbers supplied with a warning of "insufficient entropy at creation" may only contain sizeof(int) bits of cryptographic randomness. Technical Details ================= When the kernel boots, it creates several instances of the kernel random number generator very early. Additional random number genera</pre> NetBSD Security Officer 2013-02-26T23:39:26 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/518 <pre>The first release candidate of NetBSD 6.1 is now available for download at: http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.1_RC1/ NetBSD 6.1 will be the first feature update for the NetBSD 6 branch. There are many new drivers, some new features, and many bug fixes! Highlights include: - Bugfixes and feature improvements to NPF, the NetBSD Packet Filter - Improvements to several ARM platforms, including Raspberry Pi which now has nearly-complete support. - Support for dtrace on amd64 - MIPS ports switched to gdb 7.3.1, gdb6 removed - Additional device support in key drivers including wm(4), uftdi(4), mfi(4), bge(4), aac(4), tlp(4) and others. - Various port-specific improvements to the amiga, arm, sparc64 and x68k ports. A complete list of changes can be found at: http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.1_RC1/CHANGES-6.1 Please help us test this and any upcoming release candidates as much as possible. Remember, any feedback is good feedback. We'd love to hear from you, whether you've got a complaint o</pre> riz< at >NetBSD.org 2013-02-22T22:00:19 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/517 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 NetBSD Security Advisory 2013-001 ================================= Topic:kernel panic triggered from userland Version:NetBSD-current:affected prior to Dec 29th, 2012 NetBSD 6.0.*:affected NetBSD 6.0:affected NetBSD 5.1.*:not affected NetBSD 5.0.*:not affected NetBSD 5.0:not affected Severity:Local system crash Fixed:NetBSD-current:Dec 29th, 2012 NetBSD-6-0 branch:Jan 7th, 2013 NetBSD-6 branch:Jan 7th, 2013 Please note that NetBSD releases prior to 5.0 are no longer supported. It is recommended that all users upgrade to a supported release. Abstract ======== A user can panic the machine by using ktrace or ktruss on a program sleeping in recvmsg. Technical Details ================= If an untraced process sleeps in recvmsg/sendmsg, the syscall does not allocate an iov structure for ktrace. When tracing is then enabled and the process wakes up, it crashes the kernel. A local user could intentionally crash the ma</pre> NetBSD Security Officer 2013-01-29T00:40:11 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/516 <pre> pkgsrc-2012Q4 ============= The pkgsrc team is proud to announce that pkgsrc-2012Q4 is available. This release marks the 15th birthday of pkgsrc (the first entries were added in October 1997), and this release includes many new packages and updates. pkgsrc is a framework allowing third-party software to be built, installed, and managed in a consistent, logical and easy manner. The resulting binary packages can be manipulated using binary package managers like pkgin and nih. The framework is portable across operating systems, making it easy to support diverse systems from Windows to BSD, and including Linux and Mac OS X - see below for a complete list of platforms. pkgsrc releases take place at the end of every quarter. The pkgsrc-2012Q4 release is the 49th release of pkgsrc. Numbers of Packages =================== The latest figures we have for different platforms, include: 11942 total packages for NetBSD-current/amd64 11229 binary packages built with gcc for NetBSD-current/amd64 11336 binary packag</pre> Alistair Crooks 2013-01-11T06:33:52 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/515 <pre>The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.0.1, the first security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons. For more details, please see the 6.0.1 release notes at http://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-6/NetBSD-6.0.1.html . Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 6.0.1 are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, SUP, and other services may be found at http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/. </pre> riz< at >NetBSD.org 2012-12-26T16:37:00 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/514 <pre>Beginning at noon New York time (17:00 UTC) on December 26, and lasting approximately two days, nyftp.netbsd.org will be offline due to an overhaul of the the air conditioning system serving our New York racks. The periodic autobuilds of NetBSD and pkgsrc will also be unavailable for the duration of the chiller maintenance. Everything should be back online before the new year. </pre> Thor Lancelot Simon 2012-12-25T21:25:28 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/513 <pre>Hi all, The hardware is currently not turning on. A mirror will play stand-in, but that mirror doesn't have the gnats or mail-index databases, so these won't be working. We'll restore service as soon as possible (all else failing: we have backups). regards, spz </pre> S.P.Zeidler 2012-12-06T19:32:28 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/512 <pre>The first release candidate of NetBSD 5.2 is now available for download at: http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5.2_RC1/ NetBSD 5.2 is intended for those who have an application using NetBSD 5.0.x or 5.1.x who don't want the churn of upgrading to NetBSD 6.0, but who would like bug fixes and some stable new features. There have been a number of changes since 5.1. See src/doc/CHANGES-5.2 for the full list. Those of you who prefer to build from source can continue to follow the netbsd-5 branch, but the netbsd-5-2-RC1 tag is available as well. Please help us test this and any upcoming release candidates as much as possible. Remember, any feedback is good feedback. We'd love to hear from you, whether you've got a complaint or a compliment. On behalf of NetBSD Release Engineering, +j </pre> riz< at >NetBSD.org 2012-11-14T18:33:49 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/511 <pre>.... hope this reachs to you this time, Herb .... Hi, all, I and our team in Sanctum Networks have been making NetBSD port for Tile-GX 64bit multi-core processor and it now has reached to the stage running a single user mode shell. We will continue our efforts to fulfill the device drivers and SMP capabilities. We are planning to publish the code when it gets mature enough for public use. Toru Nishimura / Sanctum Networks, Bangalore India / nisimura&lt; at &gt;netbsd.org --- Type t in 3 seconds to run thorough POST tests, q to run quick tests... Thorough POST tests will be run. msh0 0123 msh1 0123 (0,0) Tilera Hypervisor, version 4.0.2.145127 (source dist) 2012-10-26 19:37:50 (0,0) Built by girish on Wed Oct 31 20:01:10 2012 from /home/girish/NetBSD/hvc/netbsd.hvc, /home/girish/NetBSD with CHIP_VERSION=10 CHIP_WIDTH=6 CHIP_HEIGHT=6 WATCHDOG=1 Symbols table: PA 0xc8_0038 - 0x3_63a8 Strings table: PA 0xcc_0038 - 0x2_3608 Hello NetBSD/tile! Topology: 6,6 &lt; at &gt; 0,0 (cpumask= 0xfffffffff) Physical memory map: Memory </pre> Toru Nishimura 2012-11-08T04:29:44 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/510 <pre>With the release of NetBSD 6.0, we bid a fond farewell to older releases, the NetBSD 4.x series. While we have many plans for active support of the most recent (6.x) and next most recent (5.x) release branches, 4.x is coming to the end of its supported life. As of November 17, one month after the 6.0 release, the following branches will no longer be maintained: * netbsd-4-0 * netbsd-4 This means: * There will be no more pullups to the branches (even for security issues) * There will be no security advisoriesany of the </pre> riz< at >NetBSD.org 2012-10-27T03:55:01 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/509 <pre>Dear All, NetBSD 6.0 introduces NPF - a NetBSD packet filter. Please find a short presentation and a quick overview on how to use it: http://www.netbsd.org/~rmind/pub/npf_presentation_netbsd_6.pdf http://www.netbsd.org/~rmind/pub/npf_manual_netbsd_6.pdf Thank you. </pre> Mindaugas Rasiukevicius 2012-10-17T17:39:13 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.os.netbsd.announce