FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-08:02.libc

[Mike Tancsa]

At 06:09 PM 1/14/2008, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote:
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>FreeBSD-SA-08:02.libc                                       Security Advisory
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>Topic:          inet_network() buffer overflow
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>For programs which passes untrusted data to inet_network(), an
>attacker may be able to overwrite a region of memory with user defined
>data by causing specially crafted input to be passed to
>inet_network().

For the "usual suspects" of applications running, (e.g. sendmail, 
apache, BIND etc) would it be possible to pass crafted packets 
through to this function remotely via those apps ?  ie how easy is this to do ?

         ---Mike