The OpenBSD 8.0 release brings OpenSSH 10.6, kernel mitigations, and immediate day-one errata patches addressing critical IPsec memory corruption.
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Calif released details and PoC code for an OpenBSD kernel vulnerability enabling local privilege escalation to root. Apply errata 018 and 026.
A 27-year-old OpenBSD authentication bypass (CVE-2026-55706) is now public, with full details and a working PoC exploit for the PPP PAP flaw.
OpenBSD brings hardware acceleration support. The project team has introduced hardware-accelerated video encoding and decoding to OpenBSD
CVE-2024-29937 in Network File System (NFS) implementations used by popular BSD-derived operating systems, including OpenBSD and FreeBSD
Today, BSD comes in various flavors such as BSDi Internet Server (BSD/OS), FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD below is a brief introduction to each of these flavors of BSD.