mbuf vulnerability

Jacques A. Vidrine nectar at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 2 11:59:42 PST 2004


On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:55:55PM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
> On Mar 01, at 01:03 PM, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 07:38:11PM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > > In
> > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200402260743.IAA18903
> > > 
> > > it seems RELENG_4 is vulnerable.  Is there any work around to a system that 
> > > has to have ports open ?
> > 
> > There will be advisories and patches available tomorrow.
> 
> Not to pester, but it's the day-after-tomorrow today  %-/
> Can we expect this Real Soon Now(tm)?

I wrote that March 1st, today is March 2nd.

The advisory and patches have been on the FTP server for almost 2 hours.
I only just minutes ago pushed the button to email it everywhere.  (Good
thing too, 'cause I mistyped a URL in there originally.)

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / nectar at celabo.org / jvidrine at verio.net / nectar at freebsd.org


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