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NetBSD Announces Four New Security Advisories

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the staying-wary dept.

Dan writes "The NetBSD project has announced four new security advisories. NetBSD ships with the racoon(8) IKE (Internet Key Exchange) daemon, a vulnerability was found in the code for packet validation of "informational exchange" messages. Inconsistent IPv6 path MTU discovery handling vulnerability states that a malicious party can cause a remote kernel panic by using ICMPv6 "too big" messages. The OpenSSL 0.9.6 ASN.1 parser vulnerability could lead to a possible denial-of-service. Finally, shmat reference counting bug - programming error in the shmat(2) system call can result in a shared memory segment's reference count being erroneously incremented."

9 of 62 comments (clear)

  1. Re:ANOTHER SECURITY ADVISORY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You ARE smelling something. But you have mis-identified the source of the smell.

    Bits and bytes don't have a smell. You, however do. Please go use some soap and go clean up, m-kay?

  2. YHBT YHL HAND by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you fell for a obvious troll

    1. Re:YHBT YHL HAND by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      What part of YHL do you not understand???

    2. Re:YHBT YHL HAND by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      lol, don't be a sore loser now

  3. "L" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No text.

    1. Re:"L" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      BSD users are always sore losers

  4. Lights out, pard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Somewhere, in a lonely hospital room,

    *BSD is dying

  5. Re:Darn, FreeBSD also affected. by kahsim · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    What is the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD? It says I acn get OpenBSD for free from their website, but where do I go? How do I post a question, which is original? Sorry, I am new to this site.

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