FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation (fatgid.io) 105 points by WhyNotHugo 1mo ago ↗ HN
[–] socphoenix 1mo ago ↗ Not sure why this is saying it isn’t patched, they released the notice including fix for 14.4 yesterday?
[–] djha-skin 1mo ago ↗ TrueNAS is on FreeBSD, as well as lots of network equipment. This does affect us more than we think as operators. [–] ksec 1mo ago ↗ > This does affect us more than we think as operators.I hope this is true but as other comments have suggested, Juniper and TrueNAS are moving or no longer on FreeBSD.I am now wondering if Netflix may one day give up FreeBSD for their cache server as well.
[–] ksec 1mo ago ↗ > This does affect us more than we think as operators.I hope this is true but as other comments have suggested, Juniper and TrueNAS are moving or no longer on FreeBSD.I am now wondering if Netflix may one day give up FreeBSD for their cache server as well.
[–] CodeCompost 1mo ago ↗ I'm curious to see how many issues an LLM can find for OpenBSD. Not knocking OpenBSD at all, genuinely curious to see if all the careful development can stand up to LLMs.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 17.0 ms ] threadI hope this is true but as other comments have suggested, Juniper and TrueNAS are moving or no longer on FreeBSD.
I am now wondering if Netflix may one day give up FreeBSD for their cache server as well.