Hole in NetBSD driver could allow code smuggling in PlayStation
reddit / BSD

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[deleted] · 2022-05-14 17:21

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weirdasianfaces · 2022-05-14 19:15

I have *never* heard RCE referred to as "code smuggling" before.
Interesting wording.

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DarthRevanG4 · 2022-05-15 00:16

The playstation runs FreeBSD not NetBSD… Maybe FreeBSD uses their
driver though? I know that happens sometimes

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swingthebodyelectric · 2022-05-15 00:38

People are using PPPoE on the PS4?

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jaypatelani · 2022-05-15 00:46

Yes. Same as MacOS has parts of FreeBSD as well NetBSD

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tcmart14 · 2022-05-15 01:21

As I explain to people about MacOS. It’s like if several Unix OSs had
an orgy and spit out a proprietary OS. It has some Mach, some FreeBSD,
some NetBSd and probably some more in there somewhere I am forgetting
about

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ugneaaaa · 2022-05-20 18:24

First they morphed BSD in to a microkernel, that became Mach. Then
they took Mach, flattened it back in to a monolithic kernel and
slapped a bunch of proprietary libraries and software on top, that
became NextStep. At last they took NextStep, added a whole proprietary
driver layer in the kernel, improved everything and updated the old
BSD utilities with modern FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD ones and that became
MacOS.