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Re: FreeBSD kernel buffer overflow

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wesley Shields)
Sat Sep 18 12:03:11 2004

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:44:41 -0400
From: Wesley Shields <wxs@csh.rit.edu>
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On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 11:48:21PM +0200, gerarra@tin.it wrote:

> Topic: Buffer Overflow in FreeBSD
> Versions: All the versions of FreeBSD are broken (4.x, 5.x, 6.0)
> Arch: x86
> Date: 16/09/2004

[snip]

Before this goes any further please read the thread[1] on hackers@ about
this.  It's not a security problem as you need root access to "exploit"
it anyways.

-- WXS

[1]
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2004-September/008280.html

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