[9980] in bugtraq
New OpenBSD security patches
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Trott)
Fri Mar 26 01:04:52 1999
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 08:53:52 -0800
Reply-To: trott@SLOWPOISONERS.COM
From: Richard Trott <trott@SLOWPOISONERS.COM>
X-To: misc@openbsd.org
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Two new security patches for OpenBSD have been posted to
http://www.openbsd.org/security.html#24:
* Mar 22, 1999: The nfds argument for poll(2) needs to be constrained, to
avoid kvm starvation (patch included).
* Mar 21, 1999: A change in TSS handling stops another kernel crash
case caused by the crashme program (patch included).
Rich
