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Old 2nd December 2009
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Default Upcoming FreeBSD Security Advisory

Hi,

I don't know how much of you are paying attention to this, but here it is anyway:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/f...er/005369.html

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Old 6th December 2009
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Old 6th December 2009
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When in doubt, kick yourself out or power the machine off. It'll be perfectly secure.

On a more serious note, there are ways to execute remote code locally. But if everything is up-to-date and "sealed off", the chances are greatly reduced.
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Wasn't this already posted here?
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