Freebsd Servers Compromised; Third-Party Software Packages Could Be Impacted

snoopy · Nov 20, 2012

Monday, November 19, 2012
FreeBSD Servers Compromised; Third-Party Software Packages Could be Impacted

FreeBSD is warning users of the open source UNIX-like operating system about a compromise of a pair of servers used to build third-party software. The organization said attackers had sufficient access to affect third-party packages distributed by the project and suggests that any software installed between Sept. 19 and Nov. 11 be updated.

“No evidence of this has been found during in-depth analysis, however the FreeBSD Project is taking an extremely conservative view on this and is working on the assumption that third-party packages generated and distributed within a specific window could theoretically have been modified,” the project said in a statement.

FreeBSD said its base code, which includes the kernel, system libraries, compiler, core command-line tools and daemons, are maintained separately from the compromised servers and are not impacted.
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Story here: https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/freebsd-servers-compromised-third-party-software-packages-could-be-impacted-111912

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