You have probably heard of FreeBSD (or any other BSD). Have you used it? If yes: stop reading right here. If no: read on, maybe you want to try it.
I know plenty of developers who feel very comfortable with Linux (especially Ubuntu is common these days). They have their developer server and probably production server running on Linux. But why Linux and not FreeBSD? There are several reasons, maybe one applies to you.
More...Disclaimer: I reported this vulnerability on September 12th, 2013 and got a response by September 16th. Nothing happened since. I asked for an update on February 4th and haven’t received a response, yet. Update February 12th: The TYPO3 security team released a security bulletin and a fixed version for the issue. Thanks!
What is object injection and why is it a problem? An object injection vulnerability allows the attacker to instantiate arbitrary objects. Just think of something like this:
More...When you’re working with Vagrant and your production servers are running FreeBSD, chances are that you also want to use FreeBSD as the Vagrant guest OS so the behaviour is consistent. The combination will not work out-of-the-box because FreeBSD doesn’t support the standard synced folder method Vagrant uses. So you need to switch to NFS sharing which needs a host-only (:private_network) network. Once you enable that, Vagrant cannot connect anymore to the virtual machine over SSH and it will look as if the machine halted.