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Re: OpenBSD IPv6 remote kernel buffer overflow. FreeBSD has this too?
user name
2007-03-16 11:27:42
I wrote:
> Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
>> Just spotted the new advisory from CORE:
>> 	http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/462728/30/0/th
readed
>> Not an expert, but FreeBSD's
src/sys/kern/uipc_mbuf2.c has the very
>> simular code.
> 
> I really hope that we're not affected, especially since
we didn't get
> any advance notice of this; but I've asked several of
our IPv6 / network
> stack experts to investigate this.

After hearing from a KAME developers who investigated this
issue,
I'm satisfied that FreeBSD is not affected.

Colin Percival
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