Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:35:18 -0800 (PST) From: dima@rdy.com (Dima Ruban) To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, security-officer@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bugtraq posts: stream.c - new FreeBSD exploit? Message-ID: <200001202035.MAA54949@sivka.rdy.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000120152818.01d7fa40@staff.sentex.ca> from Mike Tancsa at "Jan 20, 2000 03:28:18 pm"
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Mike Tancsa writes: > > Can anyone confirm the bugtraq posting ? Are the freebsd folks working on > a fix ? If so, what versions are effected ? I personaly haven't seen the code in question, but I've heard that this problem is not FreeBSD specific (Linux,Solaris,OpenBSD,etc etc etc are all affected). And due to the nature of the problem it won't be easy to fix it. > ---Mike > > >The only log that he could provide was this one: > > > >---snip--- > > > >syslog:Jan 18 12:30:36 x kernel: Kernel panic: Free list empty > > > >---snip--- > > > >One thing of note: he also stated this happened on non-freebsd systems, > >which is contrary to what the other person said, who was "under the > >impression it was freebsd specific." > > > >I have the source, which I'm not going to post for 2-3 days (give time for > >fbsd to work on the fix). If it isn't out before the 21st, I'll post it up. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 > Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net > Sentex Communications www.sentex.net > Cambridge, Ontario Canada > -- dima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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