Historic Location of FreeBSD Security Advisories

This is the historic location for FreeBSD security advisories and patches, and contains an archive of files referenced in this location. Current security advisiories and patches are now located at:

FreeBSD Security Advisories

This directory hierarchy is maintained to assist users of FreeBSD in the tracking and resolution of security related issues.

Security resources available to FreeBSD users:

• PGP Key for Security Officers
• advisories of security issues that may potentially affect FreeBSD sites.
• patches to work around or solve security issues described in advisories.
• [email protected] The FreeBSD project has selected two individuals who are well known in the security community to act as liasons to all security incident response teams. Please always use the security officer alias to report security issues that should remain confidential. PGP encrypted mail is both accepted and encouraged to maintain privacy.
[email protected] is a moderated mailing list. The only traffic on this mailing list are FreeBSD Security Advisory bulletins. No discussion occurs on this mailing list. The FreeBSD project suggests that all users responsible for system security subscibe to this mailing list. All official FreeBSD Security Advisory bulletins will be protected by a digital signature provided by PGP. You may subscribe to this list by sending mail to [email protected]
• [email protected] This mailing list is for public discussion of security issues affecting FreeBSD. Anyone is allowed to subscribe to this mailing list, including "the bad guys." Please do not post confidential information to this list. You may subscribe to this list by sending mail to [email protected]