how insecure is FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p17 at this point

[DEC740airp414user]

toward the middle/ end of the year as business edition is running the older version of freebsd.    is it better to run the newer freebsd 15.1 until 26.10 is released? 

openssl-3.0.21,1 also has about 8 vulnerabilities
opens ssh portable 1.

just a curious home user, curious on what others do at this point each year after new major releases come out

[newsense]

It's not.

OpenSSL released the patches this week for all supported versions. Vulnerabilities rated medium were the highest in the lot, none of them required an out of band patching for BE. They will be addressed on the next dot release.

The same is true for OpenSSH. Versions 10.4 and 10.5 came out weeks apart, July 7th and August 11th.

26.4.2 BE on August 14th included 10.4 as it was the latest available on Freshports at the time.


No available patches are missed. It's all a matter of timing and risk assessment. Nothing critical is missing from BE and there's no need to jump between CE and BE for security reasons.

[DEC740airp414user]

Thanks I appreciate the response