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Feb 19, 2013 | Security Focus

Bugtraq: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-13:01.bind

Hash: SHA1 ======================================================================== ===== FreeBSD-SA-13:01.bind Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: BIND remote DoS with deliberately crafted DNS64 query Category: contrib Module: bind Announced: 2013-02-19 Affects: FreeBSD 9.x and later Corrected: 2013-01-08 09:05:09 UTC 2013-02-19 13:27:20 ... (more)

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Wed Jan 30, 2013

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Darpa Open Source Security Helped FreeBSD, Junos, Mac Os X, iOS

An anonymous reader writes "In a February 2013 ACM Queue / Communications of the ACM article, A decade of OS access-control extensibility , Robert Watson at the University of Cambridge credits 2000s-era DARPA security research, distributed via FreeBSD, for the success of sandboxing in desktop, mobile, and embedded systems such as Mac OS X, iOS, and ... (more)

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