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    possible. This page will provide information about what to do in
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    the event of a security vulnerability affecting your system</p>
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    the event of a security vulnerability affecting your system</p>
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  <h2>Table of Contents</h2>
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    <li><a href="#reporting">Reporting FreeBSD security incidents</a></li>
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    <li><a href="#recent">Recent FreeBSD security vulnerabilities</a></li>
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    <li><a href="#advisories">Understanding FreeBSD security advisories</a></li>
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    <li><a href="#how">How to update your system</a></li>
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    <li><a href="#sup">Supported FreeBSD releases</a></li>
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    <li><a href="#model">The FreeBSD support model</a></li>
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  <h2>Reporting FreeBSD security incidents</h2>
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  <p>FreeBSD security issues specific to the operating system
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      href="reporting.html">reporting FreeBSD security incidents</a>
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    page.</p>
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  <h2>Recent FreeBSD security vulnerabilities</h2>
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  <p>A full list of all security vulnerabilities affecting the base system
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  <h2>Understanding FreeBSD security advisories</h2>
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  <p>Advisories affecting the base system are sent to the following mailing lists:</p>
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    <li><a href="#recent">Recent FreeBSD security vulnerabilities</a></li>
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    <li>FreeBSD-security-notifications@FreeBSD.org</li>
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    <li><a href="#how">How to update your system</a></li>
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    <li>FreeBSD-security@FreeBSD.org</li>
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    <li>FreeBSD-announce@FreeBSD.org</li>
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  <p>The list of released advisories can be found on the <a
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      href="advisories.html">FreeBSD Security Advisories</a> page.</p>
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  <p>A full list of all security vulnerabilities can be found <a
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  <p>Advisories are always signed using the FreeBSD Security Officer
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    <a href="so_public_key.asc">PGP
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      key</a> and are archived, along with their associated patches, at
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    the <a href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/">http://security.FreeBSD.org/</a>
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    subdirectories.</p>
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  <p>The FreeBSD Security Officer provides security advisories for
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    <em>-STABLE Branches</em> and the <em>Security Branches</em>.
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    (Advisories are not issued for the <em>-CURRENT Branch</em>,
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    which is primarily oriented towards &os; developers.)</p>
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    <li><p>The -STABLE branch tags have
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	names like <tt>stable/10</tt>.  The corresponding builds have
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      names like <tt>FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE</tt>.</p></li>
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    <li><p>Each FreeBSD Release has an associated Security Branch.
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	The Security Branch tags have names like <tt>releng/10.1</tt>.
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      The corresponding builds have names like <tt>FreeBSD
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      10.1-RELEASE-p4</tt>.</p></li>
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  <p>Issues affecting the FreeBSD Ports Collection are covered separately in <a
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      href="http://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/">the FreeBSD VuXML
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      document</a>.</p>
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  <h2>Supported FreeBSD releases</h2>
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  <h2>Supported FreeBSD releases</h2>
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  <p>Each release is supported by the Security Officer for a limited
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    time only.</p>
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  <p>The designation and expected lifetime of all currently supported
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    branches are given below.  The <em>Expected EoL (end-of-life)</em>
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    column indicates the earliest date on which support for that
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    branch or release will end.  Please note that these dates may be
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    branch or release will end.  Please note that these dates may be
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    pushed back if circumstances warrant it.</p>
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    pushed back if circumstances warrant it.</p>
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  <p>Effective &os;&nbsp;11.0-RELEASE, the support model has been
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  <p>Older releases are not maintained and users are strongly
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    changed to allow more rapid development while also providing
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    encouraged to upgrade to one of the supported releases mentioned
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    timely security updates for all supported releases.</p>
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    above.  A list of unsupported releases can be found <a
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  <p>Under the new support model, each major version's stable branch
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    is explicitly supported for 5 years, while each individual point
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    listed as supported on this page.  Users are strongly discouraged
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  <p>The list of released advisories can be found on the <a
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      release from each -STABLE branch) will be supported by the
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