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Old 08-31-2015, 04:01 PM   #1
myunixworld
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Is freebsd vulnerable to the same vulnerabilities as Darwin OS?


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With all the recent vulnerabilities of IOS and Darwin in the past, is freebsd also affected as IOS and Darwin are BSD based?
 
Old 08-31-2015, 06:24 PM   #2
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What you are essentially asking is "closed source project abc used some FreeBSD code and their OS is vulnerable to xyz, does that mean FreeBSD is vulnerable too?"

The answer is "maybe". But as FreeBSD is the upstream in this case, then it's not really useful to lose any sleep over it.
 
Old 09-01-2015, 02:36 PM   #3
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I appreciate the reply cynwulf. I'm guessing a genuine freebsd installed is more secure than Darwin which uses some of its code...
 
  


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