Welcome to MidnightBSD

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 - 0.7

Release Notes

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September 30, 2015

0.7.1 RELEASE
In rpcbind(8), netbuf structures are copied directly, which would result in two netbuf structures that reference to one shared address buffer. When one of the two netbuf structures is freed, access to the other netbuf structure would result in an undefined result that may crash the rpcbind(8) daemon.

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August 25, 2015

0.6.7 RELEASE
kernel: fix a security issue on amd64 where the GS segment CPU register can be changed via userland value in kernel mode by using an IRET with #SS or #NP exceptions.

openssh: A programming error in the privileged monitor process of the sshd(8) service may allow the username of an already-authenticated user to be overwritten by the unprivileged child process.

A use-after-free error in the privileged monitor process of he sshd(8) service may be deterministically triggered by the actions of a compromised unprivileged child process.

A use-after-free error in the session multiplexing code in the sshd(8) service may result in unintended termination of the connection.

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