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Web application security researchers at security firm Qualys Research Labs have reported multiple vulnerabilities in the OpenBSD operating system authentication system. The OpenBSD developer team has already confirmed the existence of the flaws, and some fixes were also revealed within 48 hours of recognition. In total, researchers found four vulnerabilities that have already been identified […]
OpenBSD, an open-source operating system built with security in mind, has been found vulnerable to four new high-severity security vulnerabilities, one of which is an old-school type authentication bypass vulnerability in BSD Auth framework. The other three vulnerabilities are privilege escalation issues that could allow local users or malicious software to gain privileges of an […]
A new feature added in test snapshots for OpenBSD releases will create a unique kernel every time an OpenBSD user reboots or upgrades his computer. This feature is named KARL — Kernel Address Randomized Link — and works by relinking internal kernel files in a random order so that it generates a unique kernel binary […]