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1.12    ! deraadt    18: <h3><font color=#e00000><strong>OpenBSD Security Views</strong></font></h3>
        !            19: OpenBSD believes very strongly in strong security.  We believe that we are
        !            20: NUMBER ONE in the industry at the moment.  Due to our open software
        !            21: development model, we are able to take a more uncompromising view towards
        !            22: increasing security than Sun, SGI, IBM, HP, or other vendors are able to.
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        !            25: Our security auditing team typically has between six and twelve
        !            26: members, and most of us continually search for and fix security holes.
        !            27: We have been auditing for approximately two years.  The process we
        !            28: followed to increase security was simply a comprehensive file-by-file
        !            29: analysis of every critical software component.  Flaws were found in
        !            30: just about every area of the system.  Entire new classes of security
        !            31: problems were found while we were doing the audit, and in many cases
        !            32: source code which had been audited earlier had to be re-audited with
        !            33: these new flaws in mind.
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        !            36: The process is not over yet, and as you can see we continue to find and
        !            37: fix new security flaws.
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        !            40: <h3><font color=#e00000><strong>OpenBSD 2.1 Security Advisories</strong></font></h3>
1.11      deraadt    41: These are the OpenBSD 2.1 advisories.  All these problems are solved
                     42: in OpenBSD 2.2.  Some of these problems still exist in other
1.1       deraadt    43: operating systems.
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                     45: <ul>
1.11      deraadt    46: <li><a href=rfork>Rfork() system call flaw (patch included)</a>
                     47: <li><a href=procfs>Procfs flaws (patch included)</a>
                     48: <li><a href=signals>Deviant Signals (patch included)</a>
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1.12    ! deraadt    52: <h3><font color=#e00000><strong>OpenBSD 2.2 Security Advisories</strong></font></h3>
1.11      deraadt    53: These are the OpenBSD 2.2 advisories.  All these problems are
1.9       deraadt    54: solved in OpenBSD current.  Some of these problems still exist in other
1.11      deraadt    55: operating systems.  Patches are provided
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1.11      deraadt    58: <li><a href=/errata.html#f00f>Intel P5 f00f lockup (patch included)</a>
                     59: <li><a href=/errata.html#sourceroute>
                     60:        Sourcerouted Packet Acceptance (patch included)</a>
                     61: <li><a href=/errata.html#ruserok>Setuid coredump & Ruserok() flaw (patch included)</a>
                     62: <li><a href=/errata.html#mmap>Read-write mmap() flaw (patch included)</a>
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1.12    ! deraadt    66: <h3><font color=#e00000><strong>Other Resources</strong></font></h3>
1.3       deraadt    67: Other security advisories that have (in the past) affected OpenBSD can
1.4       deraadt    68: be found at the <a href=http://www.secnet.com/nav1.html>Secure Networks archive</a>.
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1.5       deraadt    70: <p> If you find a new security problem, you can mail it to
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                     74: urgent, since it is inconvenient) use this <a href=pgpkey>pgp key</a>.
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