OpenBSD IPv6 remote kernel buffer overflow. FreeBSD has this too?

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 14 09:32:38 UTC 2007


Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> Just spotted the new advisory from CORE:
> 	http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/462728/30/0/threaded
> 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.

Colin Percival
FreeBSD Security Officer


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