reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Mon Sep 14 21:22:32 UTC 2009


Dan Goodin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Dan Goodin, a reporter at technology news website The Register. Security
> researcher Przemyslaw Frasunek says versions 6.x through 6.4 of FreeBSD
> has a security bug. He says he notified the FreeBSD Foundation on August
> 29 and never got a response. We'll be writing a brief article about
> this. Please let me know ASAP if someone cares to comment.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Dan Goodin
> 415-495-5411
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] FreeBSD <= 6.1 kqueue() NULL pointer
> dereference
> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:49:33 +0200
> From: Przemyslaw Frasunek <venglin at freebsd.lublin.pl>
> Organization: frasunek.com
> To: full-disclosure at lists.grok.org.uk, bugtraq at securityfocus.com
> References: <4A9028AC.9080902 at freebsd.lublin.pl>
> 
> Przemyslaw Frasunek pisze:
>> FreeBSD <= 6.1 suffers from classical check/use race condition on SMP
> 
> There is yet another kqueue related vulnerability. It affects 6.x, up to
> 6.4-STABLE. FreeBSD security team was notified on 29th Aug, but there is no
> response until now, so I won't publish any details.
> 
> Sucessful exploitation yields local root and allows to exit from jail.
> For now,
> you can see demo on:
> 
> http://www.vimeo.com/6554787
> 

You need to contact the Security Officer to get the official position.  That's security-officer at freebsd.org

I don't know why you seem to think this should have been reported to the FreeBSD
Foundation.  They aren't the responsible parties.  What to do is clearly explained
on this web page: http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html (which 
Przemyslaw for one seems to have read).

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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