Re: CVE-2024-3094: malicious code in xz 5.6.0 and xz 5.6.1

2024-04-04 Thread Paul Floyd
On 04-04-24 05:49, FreeBSD User wrote: Hello, I just stumbled over this CVE regarding xz 5.6.0 and 5.6.1: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-3094 FreeBSD starting with 14-STABLE seems to use xz 5.6.0, but my limited skills do not allow me to judge whether the

Re: libc/libsys split coming soon

2024-02-23 Thread Paul Floyd
On 05-02-24 17:02, Brooks Davis wrote: Could you do a quick test with an exe linked to libsys but not libc running under Valgrind memcheck, please? Could you suggest a more concrete example? This little example seems to be OK void _start(void) { _exit(0); } However I do see quite a

Re: libc/libsys split coming soon

2024-02-05 Thread Paul Floyd
Hi > On 5 Feb 2024, at 17:02, Brooks Davis wrote: > > >>> 2. It simplifies the implementation of restrictions on system calls such >>> as those implemented by OpenBSD's msyscall(2) >>> (https://man.openbsd.org/msyscall.2). >> >> That's one to ignore for tools that make syscalls

Re: libc/libsys split coming soon

2024-02-03 Thread Paul Floyd
On 02/02/2024 23:31, Brooks Davis wrote: TL;DR: The implementation of system calls is moving to a seperate library (libsys). No changes are required to existing software (except to ensure that libsys is present when building custom disk images).

Re: NanoBSD: CURRENT unable to compile 13-STABLE : error: a function definition without a prototype is deprecated ... in C

2023-02-27 Thread Paul Floyd
On 27-02-23 19:19, FreeBSD User wrote: Running recent CURRENT as host (FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #23 main-n261147-b8bb73ab724b: Sun Feb 26 17:39:38 CET 2023 amd64), and nanoBSD (recent 13-STABLE, git stable/13). Building an appliance based on 13-STABLE sources, a customized kernel via nanoBSD,

Re: 14.0-CURRENT panic on boot, i386 VirtualBox client

2023-01-04 Thread Paul Floyd
On 04-01-23 11:24, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 11:38:55AM +0100, Floyd, Paul wrote: On 30/12/2022 01:54, Konstantin Belousov wrote: The backtrace is needed to make a further analysis. Any suggestions for getting a backtrace? I get the panic booting either the

Re: 14.0-CURRENT panic on boot, i386 VirtualBox client

2022-12-29 Thread Paul Floyd
On 28-12-22 18:12, Ronald Klop wrote: I've had success to capture errors by recording the screen with my phone and playing back on slow speed. Another option might be to enable serial port for the console of the guest and capture the output. But I don't know if the default ISO uses that

Re: 14.0-CURRENT panic on boot, i386 VirtualBox client

2022-12-28 Thread Paul Floyd
On 28-12-22 18:05, Graham Perrin wrote: If the guest has more than CPU, try reducing to one. A step further: try booting the guest in safe mode. Neither of those changed anything (I was using 2 CPUs) A+ Paul

14.0-CURRENT panic on boot, i386 VirtualBox client

2022-12-28 Thread Paul Floyd
Hi For quite a few weeks I've been unable to boot 14.0-CURRENT i386 in a VirtualBox VM. I've tried both booting from iso image and the vmdk image. I get a kernel panic The host is running 13.1-RELEASE-p3 amd64 No problems with 14.0-CURRENT amd64 guests. I haven't been able to see the last