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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.
                     23:
                     24: <p>
1.13    ! deraadt    25: Like most members of the
        !            26: <a href=http://www.geek-girl.com/bugtraq/index.html>
        !            27: BUGTRAQ mailing list (which rarely sees OpenBSD security reports
        !            28: these days :-)</a>,
        !            29: we believe in full disclosure of security problems.  We have found
        !            30: that the coding of proper fixes to security problems typically only
        !            31: requires about 4-5 minutes of coding.  Thus we typically have fixes
        !            32: available extremely quickly.
        !            33:
        !            34: <p>
1.12      deraadt    35: Our security auditing team typically has between six and twelve
                     36: members, and most of us continually search for and fix security holes.
                     37: We have been auditing for approximately two years.  The process we
                     38: followed to increase security was simply a comprehensive file-by-file
                     39: analysis of every critical software component.  Flaws were found in
                     40: just about every area of the system.  Entire new classes of security
                     41: problems were found while we were doing the audit, and in many cases
                     42: source code which had been audited earlier had to be re-audited with
                     43: these new flaws in mind.
                     44:
                     45: <p>
                     46: The process is not over yet, and as you can see we continue to find and
                     47: fix new security flaws.
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                     49: <p>
                     50: <h3><font color=#e00000><strong>OpenBSD 2.1 Security Advisories</strong></font></h3>
1.11      deraadt    51: These are the OpenBSD 2.1 advisories.  All these problems are solved
                     52: in OpenBSD 2.2.  Some of these problems still exist in other
1.1       deraadt    53: operating systems.
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                     55: <ul>
1.11      deraadt    56: <li><a href=rfork>Rfork() system call flaw (patch included)</a>
                     57: <li><a href=procfs>Procfs flaws (patch included)</a>
                     58: <li><a href=signals>Deviant Signals (patch included)</a>
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1.12      deraadt    62: <h3><font color=#e00000><strong>OpenBSD 2.2 Security Advisories</strong></font></h3>
1.11      deraadt    63: These are the OpenBSD 2.2 advisories.  All these problems are
1.9       deraadt    64: solved in OpenBSD current.  Some of these problems still exist in other
1.11      deraadt    65: operating systems.  Patches are provided
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1.11      deraadt    68: <li><a href=/errata.html#f00f>Intel P5 f00f lockup (patch included)</a>
                     69: <li><a href=/errata.html#sourceroute>
                     70:        Sourcerouted Packet Acceptance (patch included)</a>
                     71: <li><a href=/errata.html#ruserok>Setuid coredump & Ruserok() flaw (patch included)</a>
                     72: <li><a href=/errata.html#mmap>Read-write mmap() flaw (patch included)</a>
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1.12      deraadt    76: <h3><font color=#e00000><strong>Other Resources</strong></font></h3>
1.3       deraadt    77: Other security advisories that have (in the past) affected OpenBSD can
1.4       deraadt    78: be found at the <a href=http://www.secnet.com/nav1.html>Secure Networks archive</a>.
1.3       deraadt    79:
1.5       deraadt    80: <p> If you find a new security problem, you can mail it to
1.6       deraadt    81: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>deraadt@openbsd.org</a>.
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1.5       deraadt    83: If you wish to PGP encode it (but please only do so if privacy is very
                     84: urgent, since it is inconvenient) use this <a href=pgpkey>pgp key</a>.
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