#openbsd
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OpenBSD 8.0: the 61st release of the security-focused BSD
Theo de Raadt has announced OpenBSD 8.0, the 61st stable release of the free, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like system. Highlights include faster swap encryption and a much larger kernel address space.
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A 37-Year-Old Bug Surfaces: Rooting OpenBSD via Code Older Than BSD Itself
Researchers at Calif gained root on OpenBSD with KARL, SMAP and SMEP enabled by overflowing a counter that had stayed 16-bit since the original BSD sources.
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OpenBSD rejects uutils port as Theo de Raadt smells an 'agenda'
A proposal to add the Rust-rewritten uutils to OpenBSD's ports tree met firm pushback from Stuart Henderson and Theo de Raadt.
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A vulnerability allowing root privileges has been discovered in OpenBSD
A use-after-free vulnerability that lets a local user escalate privileges to root has been found in versions of OpenBSD up to and including 7.9. The vulnerability has been assigned the identifier CVE-2026-57589.