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<sect2 id="security">
<title>Security Advisories</title>
<para>A bug in the &man.fetch.1; utility which allows
<para>A bug in the &man.fetch.1; utility, which allows
a malicious HTTP server to cause arbitrary portions of the client's
memory to be overwritten, has been fixed.
For more information, see security advisory
@ -110,9 +110,10 @@
&merged;</para>
<para>A bug in &man.procfs.5; and &man.linprocfs.5;
which could cause a malicious local user could perform a local
denial of service attack by causing a system panic, or the user
could read parts of kernel memory, has been fixed.
which could allow a malicious local user to read parts of kernel
memory or perform a local
denial of service attack by causing a system panic,
has been fixed.
For more information, see security advisory
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:17.procfs.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:17.procfs</ulink>.
&merged;</para>
@ -141,7 +142,7 @@
<para>Fine-grained locking to allow much of the VFS stack to run
without the Giant lock has been added. This is enabled by default
on alpha, amd64, and i386 architecture, and can be disabled
on the alpha, amd64, and i386 architectures, and can be disabled
by setting the loader tunable (and sysctl variable)
<varname>debug.mpsafevfs</varname> to
<literal>0</literal>.</para>
@ -159,8 +160,8 @@
<para arch="i386">Memory allocation for legacy PCI bridges has
been limited to the top 32MB of RAM. Many older, legacy bridges
only allow allocation from this range and this only applies
to devices which don't have their memory assigned by the BIOS.
only allow allocation from this range. This change only applies
to devices which do not have their memory assigned by the BIOS.
This change fixes the <quote>bad Vcc</quote> error of CardBus
bridges (&man.pccbb.4;). &merged;</para>
@ -256,7 +257,7 @@
<para>The &man.psm.4; driver now has improved support for
Synaptics Touchpad users. It now has better tracking of
slow-speed movement and now has support for various extra
slow-speed movement and support for various extra
buttons and dials. These features can be tuned with the
<varname>hw.psm.synaptics.<replaceable>*</replaceable></varname>
hierarchy of sysctl variables.</para>
@ -329,7 +330,7 @@
and &man.altq.4;. &merged;</para>
<para>Several programming errors in the &man.sk.4; driver have
been corrected. This bug was particular to SMP systems, and
been corrected. These bugs were particular to SMP systems, and
could cause panics, page faults, aborted SSH connections, or
corrupted file transfers. More details can be found in
errata note
@ -343,7 +344,7 @@
<para>The &man.vge.4; driver now has support for device polling
(&man.polling.4;).</para>
<para>Support for 802.11 devices in the &man.wlan.4; has been
<para>Support for 802.11 devices in the &man.wlan.4; framework has been
greatly overhauled. In addition to architectural changes,
it includes completed 802.11g, WPA, 802.11i, 802.1x,
WME/WMM, AP-side power-saving, and plugin frameworks for
@ -361,28 +362,28 @@
<para>The MTU feedback in IPv6 has been disabled when the sender writes
data that must be fragmented. &merged;</para>
<para>CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) has
<para>The Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP) has
been implemented. CARP comes from OpenBSD and allows
multiple hosts to share an IP address, providing
high availability and load balancing.
For more information, see &man.carp.4; manual page.</para>
For more information, see the &man.carp.4; manual page.</para>
<para>&man.ipfw.4; <literal>IPDIVERT</literal> option has been
<para>The &man.ipfw.4; <literal>IPDIVERT</literal> option is now
available as a kernel loadable module.
If this module is not loaded, &man.ipfw.4; will refuse to
install <literal>divert</literal> rules and &man.natd.8;
will put an error message <quote>protocol not supported</quote>.</para>
will return the error message <quote>protocol not supported</quote>.</para>
<para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports classification and tagging
of the &man.altq.4;, packets via a divert socket,
and TCP data length.</para>
of &man.altq.4; packets via a divert socket,
as well as the TCP data length.</para>
<para>&man.ipfw.8; <literal>ipfw fwd</literal> rule now supports
<para>The &man.ipfw.8; <literal>ipfw fwd</literal> rule now supports
the full packet destination manipulation when the kernel option
<literal>options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD_EXTENDED</literal> is specified
in addition to <literal>options IPFIRWALL_FORWARD</literal>.
This kernel option disables all restrictions to ensure proper
behavior for locally generated packets and allows to redirect
behavior for locally generated packets and allows redirection of
packets destined to locally configured IP addresses.
Note that &man.ipfw.8; rules have to be carefully crafted to
make sure that things like PMTU discovery do not break.</para>
@ -405,10 +406,10 @@
fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>RFC 1644 T/TCP support has been removed. This is because
the design is based on an weak security model that can result
in the ease of denial-of-service attacks and this TCP
extension has been considered as a defective one in
the recent Internet Draft.</para>
the design is based on a weak security model that can easily
permit denial-of-service attacks. This TCP
extension has been considered a defective one in
a recent Internet Draft.</para>
<para>Random ephemeral port number allocation has led to some
problems with port reuse at high connection rates. This
@ -512,7 +513,7 @@
<para>Support for abbreviated forms of a number of &man.ipfw.8;
options has been deprecated. Warnings are printed to stderr
indicated the correct full form when one of these abbreviations
indicating the correct full form when one of these abbreviations
is detected.</para>
<para>The <filename>libarchive</filename> library (as well as the
@ -527,15 +528,15 @@
be excluded from various programs and will cause the NIS
utilities to not be built. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.mkuzip.8;, which is a non-GPL
utility to compress file system images for use with
<para arch="i386">The &man.mkuzip.8; utility, which
compresses file system images for use with
<literal>GEOM_UZIP</literal> &man.geom.4; module,
has been added.</para>
<para>The &man.newsyslog.8; utility now supports
a <option>-d</option> option to specify an alternate root for log files
similar to <varname>DESTDIR</varname> in the BSD make process.
This only affects log file paths, not config file (<option>-f</option>)
This only affects log file paths, not configuration file (<option>-f</option>)
or archive directory (<option>-a</option>) paths.</para>
<para>The &man.ncal.1; utility now supports a <option>-m</option>
@ -548,7 +549,7 @@
<function>ib<replaceable>foo</replaceable></function>
API.</para>
<para>The &man.mknod.8; utility has been marked deprecated.
<para>The &man.mknod.8; utility is now deprecated.
Device nodes have been managed by the &man.devfs.5; device file
system since &os; 5.0.</para>
@ -577,7 +578,7 @@
echo</command> to get this behavior. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.rm.1; utility now supports an <option>-I</option>
option that asks for confirmation once if recursively
option that asks for confirmation (once) if recursively
removing directories or if more than 3 files are listed in the
command line. &merged;</para>
@ -591,7 +592,7 @@
<para>The &man.syslog.3; function is now thread-safe. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.syslogd.8; utility now opens an additional domain
socket <filename>/var/run/logpriv</filename> by default,
socket (<filename>/var/run/logpriv</filename> by default),
with <literal>0600</literal> permissions to be used
by privileged programs. This prevents privileged
programs from locking when the domain sockets
@ -612,8 +613,8 @@
<para>&man.whois.1; now supports
a <option>-k</option> flag
for querying <hostid role="fqdn">whois.krnic.net</hostid>
(the National Internet Development Agency of Korea)
which hold details of IP address allocations within
(the National Internet Development Agency of Korea),
which holds details of IP address allocations within
Korea. &merged;</para>
<para>The <option>-I</option> option of the &man.xargs.1; command

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<sect2 id="security">
<title>Security Advisories</title>
<para>A bug in the &man.fetch.1; utility which allows
<para>A bug in the &man.fetch.1; utility, which allows
a malicious HTTP server to cause arbitrary portions of the client's
memory to be overwritten, has been fixed.
For more information, see security advisory
@ -110,9 +110,10 @@
&merged;</para>
<para>A bug in &man.procfs.5; and &man.linprocfs.5;
which could cause a malicious local user could perform a local
denial of service attack by causing a system panic, or the user
could read parts of kernel memory, has been fixed.
which could allow a malicious local user to read parts of kernel
memory or perform a local
denial of service attack by causing a system panic,
has been fixed.
For more information, see security advisory
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:17.procfs.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:17.procfs</ulink>.
&merged;</para>
@ -141,7 +142,7 @@
<para>Fine-grained locking to allow much of the VFS stack to run
without the Giant lock has been added. This is enabled by default
on alpha, amd64, and i386 architecture, and can be disabled
on the alpha, amd64, and i386 architectures, and can be disabled
by setting the loader tunable (and sysctl variable)
<varname>debug.mpsafevfs</varname> to
<literal>0</literal>.</para>
@ -159,8 +160,8 @@
<para arch="i386">Memory allocation for legacy PCI bridges has
been limited to the top 32MB of RAM. Many older, legacy bridges
only allow allocation from this range and this only applies
to devices which don't have their memory assigned by the BIOS.
only allow allocation from this range. This change only applies
to devices which do not have their memory assigned by the BIOS.
This change fixes the <quote>bad Vcc</quote> error of CardBus
bridges (&man.pccbb.4;). &merged;</para>
@ -256,7 +257,7 @@
<para>The &man.psm.4; driver now has improved support for
Synaptics Touchpad users. It now has better tracking of
slow-speed movement and now has support for various extra
slow-speed movement and support for various extra
buttons and dials. These features can be tuned with the
<varname>hw.psm.synaptics.<replaceable>*</replaceable></varname>
hierarchy of sysctl variables.</para>
@ -329,7 +330,7 @@
and &man.altq.4;. &merged;</para>
<para>Several programming errors in the &man.sk.4; driver have
been corrected. This bug was particular to SMP systems, and
been corrected. These bugs were particular to SMP systems, and
could cause panics, page faults, aborted SSH connections, or
corrupted file transfers. More details can be found in
errata note
@ -343,7 +344,7 @@
<para>The &man.vge.4; driver now has support for device polling
(&man.polling.4;).</para>
<para>Support for 802.11 devices in the &man.wlan.4; has been
<para>Support for 802.11 devices in the &man.wlan.4; framework has been
greatly overhauled. In addition to architectural changes,
it includes completed 802.11g, WPA, 802.11i, 802.1x,
WME/WMM, AP-side power-saving, and plugin frameworks for
@ -361,28 +362,28 @@
<para>The MTU feedback in IPv6 has been disabled when the sender writes
data that must be fragmented. &merged;</para>
<para>CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) has
<para>The Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP) has
been implemented. CARP comes from OpenBSD and allows
multiple hosts to share an IP address, providing
high availability and load balancing.
For more information, see &man.carp.4; manual page.</para>
For more information, see the &man.carp.4; manual page.</para>
<para>&man.ipfw.4; <literal>IPDIVERT</literal> option has been
<para>The &man.ipfw.4; <literal>IPDIVERT</literal> option is now
available as a kernel loadable module.
If this module is not loaded, &man.ipfw.4; will refuse to
install <literal>divert</literal> rules and &man.natd.8;
will put an error message <quote>protocol not supported</quote>.</para>
will return the error message <quote>protocol not supported</quote>.</para>
<para>&man.ipfw.8; now supports classification and tagging
of the &man.altq.4;, packets via a divert socket,
and TCP data length.</para>
of &man.altq.4; packets via a divert socket,
as well as the TCP data length.</para>
<para>&man.ipfw.8; <literal>ipfw fwd</literal> rule now supports
<para>The &man.ipfw.8; <literal>ipfw fwd</literal> rule now supports
the full packet destination manipulation when the kernel option
<literal>options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD_EXTENDED</literal> is specified
in addition to <literal>options IPFIRWALL_FORWARD</literal>.
This kernel option disables all restrictions to ensure proper
behavior for locally generated packets and allows to redirect
behavior for locally generated packets and allows redirection of
packets destined to locally configured IP addresses.
Note that &man.ipfw.8; rules have to be carefully crafted to
make sure that things like PMTU discovery do not break.</para>
@ -405,10 +406,10 @@
fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>RFC 1644 T/TCP support has been removed. This is because
the design is based on an weak security model that can result
in the ease of denial-of-service attacks and this TCP
extension has been considered as a defective one in
the recent Internet Draft.</para>
the design is based on a weak security model that can easily
permit denial-of-service attacks. This TCP
extension has been considered a defective one in
a recent Internet Draft.</para>
<para>Random ephemeral port number allocation has led to some
problems with port reuse at high connection rates. This
@ -512,7 +513,7 @@
<para>Support for abbreviated forms of a number of &man.ipfw.8;
options has been deprecated. Warnings are printed to stderr
indicated the correct full form when one of these abbreviations
indicating the correct full form when one of these abbreviations
is detected.</para>
<para>The <filename>libarchive</filename> library (as well as the
@ -527,15 +528,15 @@
be excluded from various programs and will cause the NIS
utilities to not be built. &merged;</para>
<para arch="i386">The &man.mkuzip.8;, which is a non-GPL
utility to compress file system images for use with
<para arch="i386">The &man.mkuzip.8; utility, which
compresses file system images for use with
<literal>GEOM_UZIP</literal> &man.geom.4; module,
has been added.</para>
<para>The &man.newsyslog.8; utility now supports
a <option>-d</option> option to specify an alternate root for log files
similar to <varname>DESTDIR</varname> in the BSD make process.
This only affects log file paths, not config file (<option>-f</option>)
This only affects log file paths, not configuration file (<option>-f</option>)
or archive directory (<option>-a</option>) paths.</para>
<para>The &man.ncal.1; utility now supports a <option>-m</option>
@ -548,7 +549,7 @@
<function>ib<replaceable>foo</replaceable></function>
API.</para>
<para>The &man.mknod.8; utility has been marked deprecated.
<para>The &man.mknod.8; utility is now deprecated.
Device nodes have been managed by the &man.devfs.5; device file
system since &os; 5.0.</para>
@ -577,7 +578,7 @@
echo</command> to get this behavior. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.rm.1; utility now supports an <option>-I</option>
option that asks for confirmation once if recursively
option that asks for confirmation (once) if recursively
removing directories or if more than 3 files are listed in the
command line. &merged;</para>
@ -591,7 +592,7 @@
<para>The &man.syslog.3; function is now thread-safe. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.syslogd.8; utility now opens an additional domain
socket <filename>/var/run/logpriv</filename> by default,
socket (<filename>/var/run/logpriv</filename> by default),
with <literal>0600</literal> permissions to be used
by privileged programs. This prevents privileged
programs from locking when the domain sockets
@ -612,8 +613,8 @@
<para>&man.whois.1; now supports
a <option>-k</option> flag
for querying <hostid role="fqdn">whois.krnic.net</hostid>
(the National Internet Development Agency of Korea)
which hold details of IP address allocations within
(the National Internet Development Agency of Korea),
which holds details of IP address allocations within
Korea. &merged;</para>
<para>The <option>-I</option> option of the &man.xargs.1; command