FreeBSD security Advisories: FreeBSD-SA-03:09.sign

Dan writes "FreeBSD security team has released two new advisories. The first advisory entitled "Insufficient range checking of signal numbers" could allow a malicious local user to use this vulnerability as a local denial-of-service attack. The second advisory "Kernel memory disclosure via ibcs2" could allow a malicious user to call the iBCS2 version of statfs(2) with an arbitrarily large length parameter, causing the kernel to return a large portion of kernel memory containing sensitive information."

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sensitive information

[patch-rustem]

... to return a large portion of kernel memory containing sensitive information.

What, like the sys admins porn collection.

Bias in topic titles?? Never!!

[Anonymous Coward]

It's sort of interesting that this FreeBSD vulnerability is headlined with such a cryptic title. Now, if it were a vulnerability in Windows, it would probably have been titled 'New Windows Exploit crushes small furry animals mercilessly.'