[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-14:01.bsnmpd

Gregory Shapiro gshapiro at gshapiro.net
Tue Jan 14 23:53:11 UTC 2014


> Topic:          bsnmpd remote denial of service vulnerability
...
> III. Impact
> 
> This issue could be exploited to execute arbitrary code in the context of
> the service daemon, or crash the service daemon, causing a denial-of-service.

The title/topic of this advisory should be changed reflect the more serious of these impacts, "execute arbitrary code".  IMHO, this is a much larger impact than bsnmpd crashing.


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