Larry the BSD Guy
The glibc security vulnerability that Linux developers have been scrambling to patch does not affect *BSD.
Much has been made about a vulnerability in a function in the GNU C Library. And searching far and wide over the Internet, there was little — actually nothing — I could find regarding how this affected BSD variants.
However, you can rest easy, BSDers: Not our circus, not our monkeys.
Dag-Erling Smørgrav, a FreeBSD developer since 1998 and a former FreeBSD Security Officer, writes in his blog that “neither FreeBSD itself nor native FreeBSD applications are affected.”