Manage DragonFlyBSD dports
Introduction DragonFlyBSD was based on NetBSD’s pkgsrc. Since DragonFlyBSD 3.4, FreeBSD port tree has been ported to DragonFly, and renamed it dports. Ports tree The ports tree containt all softwares....
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Comparative benchmark: PostgreSQL 9.1
This afternoon i want to test DragonFly dports. Then i got an idea, why not compare PostgreSQL performances between BSD and Linux ? I have done a little benchmark to see the performances gap between...
View ArticleR&D: OpenOSPF improvements
Because we are installing a new intersite link, with new border routers (BGP+OSPF) on OpenBSD, i have realized that OpenOSPF has some technical limitations. Indeed my routers to distribute routes via...
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Tip: install and use samba4 on a ZFS volume
A little article which can save you Samba needs ACLs support. With samba 3.5-3.6 it’s possible to ignore this, but with samba4 it’s quite difficult. When you have installed samba4, you would see that...
View ArticleSecurity: mod_security
When ModSecurity receives a request body with a size bigger than the value set by the “SecRequestBodyInMemoryLimit” and with a “Content-Type” that has no request body processor mapped to it,...
View ArticleSécurité: puppet
When making REST api calls, the puppet master takes YAML from an untrusted client, deserializes it, and then calls methods on the resulting object. A YAML payload can be crafted to cause the...
View ArticleSecurity: PHPMyAdmin
The import.php script was vulnerable to GLOBALS variable injection. Therefore, an attacker could manipulate any configuration parameter. This vulnerability can be triggered only by someone who logged...
View ArticleOpenOSPF6d patch: routing priority and breaking routing loops
Hi all, Here is a patch to add two new functions to OpenOSPF6d. The first function is the new keyword fib-routing-priority. This keyword allows to choose a custom routing priority. this function is...
View ArticleHow to resolve “tar: Unrecognized archive format” on FreeBSD < 8.3
On recent FreeBSD, the tar binary has been replaced by bsdtar util. On old FreeBSD’s (8.2, 7.2 and more), the classic tar util is used. The problem is simple, tar cannot open lzma archives. To resolve...
View ArticleSecurity: puppet
By using the `resource_type` service, an attacker could cause puppet to load arbitrary Ruby files from the puppet master node’s file system. While this behavior is not enabled by default, `auth.conf`...
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