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NetBSD development team officially announces the release of NetBSD 6.1.5 which is the fifth security/bugfix update under NetBSD 6.1.x series. Well this release represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons. It also includes all prior security/bugfix updates made in 6.1.x branch. The team also raise a voice for needed funding for maintaining NetBSD from users and organizations.

According to official announcement, NetBSD 6.1.5 comes with security advisory fixes, kernel fixes and several other miscellaneous fixes. For sparc64, it fixes longjmp bug which causes a segmentation fault on sparc64 kernels with 32-bit userland whereas physmen calculations are moved before nptpage initialization in next68k.

The kernel of NetBSD 6.1.5 also receives minor fixes like fix a race, fix a panic in urndis, fix a panic in vioif, fix a mbuf leak in IPFilter and fixes two overflows and a memory corruption bug in ptyfs and umapfs. Security fixes in this release includes fix various issues in mount syscall, which can be used by local user to panic the system. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

Among several miscellaneous fixes, it includes update to tzdata2014g, update bozohttpd to 20140708, update openssl to 1.0.1, update root.cache to 2014060201, fix file descriptor leak and fix Xserver crash on exit when using wsfb. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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