Hello, If you are not using geli(4) on -CURRENT (AKA FreeBSD 10) you can safely ignore this mail. If you are, please read on! -CURRENT users of geli(4) should be advised that, a geli(4) device may have weak master key, if the provider is created on -CURRENT system built against source code between r238116 (Jul 4 17:54:17 2012 UTC) and r239184 (non-inclusive, Aug 10 18:43:29 2012 UTC). One can verify if its provider was created with weak keys by running: # geli dump <provider> | grep version If the version is 7 and the system did not include this fix (r239184) when provider was initialized, then the data has to be backed up, underlying provider overwritten with random data, system upgraded and provider recreated. Thanks to Fabian Keil for reporting the issue, Pawel Jakub Dawidek for fixing it, and Xin Li for drafting this text. PS. This only affects FreeBSD 10 / -CURRENT, and as -CURRENT isn't supported by the FreeBSD Security Team, we are not releasing an advisory, just this heads up. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen FreeBSD Security Officer
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