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posted by martyb on Sunday October 21 2018, @07:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the Security-is-good,-mmmmkay? dept.

OpenBSD 6.4 has dropped, and has a bunch of improvements, including:

  • Unveil(2) system call to restrict file system access to specified directories / files
  • RETGUARD protection added for AMD64 and ARM64
  • clang includes a ROP gadget replacement pass
  • clang includes retpoline mitigation for Spectre Variant 2
  • meltdown mitigation for i386
  • amd64 doesn't leak FPU state information across protection boundaries

...and much more.


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  • (Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @10:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @10:02PM (#751782)

    I need to create Powerpoints, so my OS has to run real software.

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