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MidnightBSD is a new BSD-derived operating system developed with desktop users in mind. It includes all the software you'd expect for your daily tasks — email, web browsing, word processing, gaming, and much more.

With a small community of dedicated developers, MidnightBSD strives to create an easy-to-use operating system everyone can use, freely. Available for x86, AMD64 and as Virtual Machines.

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Latest Release - 0.5.2

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March 19, 2015

0.5.10 RELEASE
OpenSSL Security update
A malformed elliptic curve private key file could cause a use-after-free condition in the d2i_ECPrivateKey function. [CVE-2015-0209]
An attempt to compare ASN.1 boolean types will cause the ASN1_TYPE_cmp function to crash with an invalid read. [CVE-2015-0286]
Reusing a structure in ASN.1 parsing may allow an attacker to cause memory corruption via an invalid write. [CVE-2015-0287]
The function X509_to_X509_REQ will crash with a NULL pointer dereference if the certificate key is invalid. [CVE-2015-0288]
The PKCS#7 parsing code does not handle missing outer ContentInfo correctly. [CVE-2015-0289]
A malicious client can trigger an OPENSSL_assert in servers that both support SSLv2 and enable export cipher suites by sending a specially crafted SSLv2 CLIENT-MASTER-KEY message. [CVE-2015-0293]

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February 25, 2015

0.5.9 RELEASE
Fix two security vulnerabilities.
1. BIND servers which are configured to perform DNSSEC validation and which are using managed keys (which occurs implicitly when using "dnssec-validation auto;" or "dnssec-lookaside auto;") may exhibit unpredictable behavior due to the use of an improperly initialized variable.
CVE-2015-1349
2. An integer overflow in computing the size of IGMPv3 data buffer can result in a buffer which is too small for the requested operation.
This can result in a DOS attack.

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