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Friday May 18th 2012

Posts Tagged ‘iXsystems’

TrueNAS announced

iXsystems has announced the availability of the TrueNAS™ Pro family of storage appliances. TrueNAS™ Pro storage appliances provide security, scalability, and flexibility at a low total cost of ownership. The TrueNAS™ Pro software is based on the FreeNAS™ 8 operating system, and is enhanced with enterprise features such as Intent Log [...]

Grant Annoucement: Improve IPv6 (KAME) Support for FreeBSD & PC-BSD

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that it has awarded Bjoern Zeeb a grant to improve the maturity of IPv6 support in FreeBSD and PC-BSD. This project is jointly sponsored with iXsystems. FreeBSD's KAME-based reference implementation of IPv6 first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0, and can be found in a broad range of FreeBSD-derived [...]

Mac OS X buffer overflow vulnerability published

Earlier today SecurityReason released a proof of concept for the buffer overflow vulnerability found in libc gdtoa() function which is used by printf(). The index array overflow was first reported by researcher Maksymilian Arciemowicz last June. The advisory describes a flaw in the libc/gdtoa code in OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X, as [...]