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possible. This page will provide information about what to do in
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possible. This page will provide information about what to do in
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the event of a security vulnerability affecting your system</p>
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the event of a security vulnerability affecting your system</p>
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<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#reporting">Reporting FreeBSD security
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incidents</a></li> <li><a href="#recent">Recent FreeBSD
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security vulnerabilities</a></li>
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<li><a href="#advisories">Understanding FreeBSD security
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advisories</a></li> <li><a href="#how">How to update your
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system</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sup">Supported FreeBSD releases</a></li>
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<li><a href="#model">The FreeBSD support model</a></li>
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</ul>
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<a name="reporting"></a>
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<h2>Reporting FreeBSD security incidents</h2>
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<h2>Reporting FreeBSD security incidents</h2>
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<p>FreeBSD security issues specific to the base system
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<p>FreeBSD security issues specific to the base system
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href="reporting.html">reporting FreeBSD security incidents</a>
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href="reporting.html">reporting FreeBSD security incidents</a>
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page.</p>
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page.</p>
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<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#recent">Recent FreeBSD security vulnerabilities</a></li>
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<li><a href="#how">How to update your system</a></li>
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</ul>
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<a name="recent"></a>
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<a name="recent"></a>
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<h2>Recent FreeBSD security vulnerabilities</h2>
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<h2>Recent FreeBSD security vulnerabilities</h2>
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<p>A full list of all security vulnerabilities can be found <a
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<p>A full list of all security vulnerabilities affecting the base
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href="advisories.html">on this page</a>.</p>
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system can be found <a href="advisories.html">on this
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page</a>.</p>
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<a name="advisories"></a>
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<h2>Understanding FreeBSD security advisories</h2>
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<p>Advisories affecting the base system are sent to the following
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mailing lists:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>FreeBSD-security-notifications@FreeBSD.org</li>
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<li>FreeBSD-security@FreeBSD.org</li>
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<li>FreeBSD-announce@FreeBSD.org</li>
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</ul>
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<p>The list of released advisories can be found on the <a
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href="advisories.html">FreeBSD Security Advisories</a> page.</p>
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<p>Advisories are always signed using the FreeBSD Security Officer
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<a href="so_public_key.asc">PGP key</a> and are archived, along
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with their associated patches, at the <a
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href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/">http://security.FreeBSD.org/</a>
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web server in the <a
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href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/">advisories</a>
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and <a href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/">patches</a>
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subdirectories.</p>
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<p>The FreeBSD Security Officer provides security advisories for
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<em>-STABLE Branches</em> and the <em>Security Branches</em>.
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(Advisories are not issued for the <em>-CURRENT Branch</em>,
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which is primarily oriented towards &os; developers.)</p>
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<li><p>The -STABLE branch tags have
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names like <tt>stable/10</tt>. The corresponding builds have
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names like <tt>FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE</tt>.</p></li>
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<li><p>Each FreeBSD Release has an associated Security Branch.
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The Security Branch tags have names like <tt>releng/10.1</tt>.
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The corresponding builds have names like <tt>FreeBSD
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10.1-RELEASE-p4</tt>.</p></li>
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<p>Issues affecting the FreeBSD Ports Collection are covered separately in <a
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href="http://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/">the FreeBSD VuXML
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document</a>.</p>
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<a name="how"></a>
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<a name="how"></a>
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<h2>How to update your system</h2>
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<h2>How to update your system</h2>
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<a name="sup"></a>
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<a name="sup"></a>
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<h2>Supported FreeBSD releases</h2>
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<h2>Supported FreeBSD releases</h2>
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<p>Each release is supported by the Security Officer for a limited
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time only.</p>
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<p>The designation and expected lifetime of all currently supported
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<p>The designation and expected lifetime of all currently supported
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branches
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branches
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and their respective releases
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and their respective releases
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branch or release will end. Please note that these dates may be
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branch or release will end. Please note that these dates may be
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pushed back if circumstances warrant it.</p>
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pushed back if circumstances warrant it.</p>
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<p>Effective &os; 11.0-RELEASE, the support model has been
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<p>Older releases are not maintained and users are strongly
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changed to allow more rapid development while also providing
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encouraged to upgrade to one of the supported releases mentioned
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timely security updates for all supported releases.</p>
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above. A list of unsupported releases can be found <a
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href="unsupported.html">here</a>.</p>
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<p>Under the new support model, each major version's stable branch
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is explicitly supported for 5 years, while each individual point
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release is only supported for three months after the next point
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release.</p>
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<p>The details and rationale behind this change can be found in the
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<a
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href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-February/001624.html">official
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announcement</a> sent in February 2015.</p>
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Please also update head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releng/index.xml
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</tr>
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<p>Older releases are not maintained and users are strongly
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<p>In the run-up to a release, a number of -BETA
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encouraged to upgrade to one of the supported releases mentioned
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and -RC releases may be published for testing purposes. These releases are only
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above. A list of unsupported releases can be found <a
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supported for a few weeks, as resources permit, and will not be
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href="unsupported.html">here</a>.</p>
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listed as supported on this page. Users are strongly discouraged
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from running these releases on production systems.</p>
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<p>Advisories are sent to the following FreeBSD mailing lists:</p>
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<a name="model"></a>
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<ul>
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<h2>The FreeBSD support model</h2>
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<li>FreeBSD-security-notifications@FreeBSD.org</li>
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<li>FreeBSD-security@FreeBSD.org</li>
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<li>FreeBSD-announce@FreeBSD.org</li>
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</ul>
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<p>The list of released advisories can be found on the <a
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<p>Effective &os; 11.0-RELEASE, the support model has been
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href="advisories.html">FreeBSD Security Advisories</a> page.</p>
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changed to allow more rapid development while also providing
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<p>Advisories are always signed using the FreeBSD Security Officer
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<a href="so_public_key.asc">PGP
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is explicitly supported for 5 years, while each individual point
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key</a> and are archived, along with their associated patches, at
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release is only supported for three months after the next point
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the <a href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/">http://security.FreeBSD.org/</a>
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release.</p>
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web server in the <a
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href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/">advisories</a> and <a
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href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/">patches</a>
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subdirectories.</p>
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<p>The FreeBSD Security Officer provides security advisories for
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<em>-STABLE Branches</em> and the <em>Security Branches</em>.
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<a
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(Advisories are not issued for the <em>-CURRENT Branch</em>.)</p>
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href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-February/001624.html">official
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<p>Previously, branches were designated as either <em>Normal</em> or
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<li><p>The -STABLE branch tags have
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names like <tt>FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE</tt>.</p></li>
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10.1-RELEASE-p4</tt>.</p></li>
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<p>Each branch is supported by the Security Officer for a limited
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time only, and is designated as either <em>Normal</em> or
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<em>Extended</em>. The designation is used as a guideline for
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determining the lifetime of the branch as follows:</p>
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Security Officer for a minimum of 24 months after the release,
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