Re: Is FreeBSD insecure?

On Monday, 28 April 2025 at 17:38:28 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> [op not cc:ed because they're obviously a troll]
>
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> writes:
>> Security is an important issue nowadays, and no operating system is
>> perfect.  The FreeBSD project does everything possible to maintain its
>> good reputation, though so far I haven't seen anything that indicates
>> that the breach was the result of a FreeBSD bug.  Was it maybe a third
>> party application, or incorrect configuration?
>
> It was allegedly an RCE in a long-unsupported version of
> Ghostscript, so not FreeBSD's fault at all.

Yes, I've since heard that too.  See
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/15/4chan_breached/, though it only
mentions out-of-date PHP and MySQL.  That would have happened with any
operating system.  But it's good to bring these details out into the
open.

Greg
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