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authorbms <bms@FreeBSD.org>2003-09-23 16:39:31 +0000
committerbms <bms@FreeBSD.org>2003-09-23 16:39:31 +0000
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Fix a bug in arplookup(), whereby a hostile party on a locally
attached network could exhaust kernel memory, and cause a system panic, by sending a flood of spoofed ARP requests. Approved by: jake (mentor) Reported by: Apple Product Security <product-security@apple.com>
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@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT 5.0-CURRENT IS SLOW:
developers choose to disable these features on build machines
to maximize performance.
+20030923:
+ Fix a bug in arplookup(), whereby a hostile party on a locally
+ attached network could exhaust kernel memory, and cause a system
+ panic, by sending a flood of spoofed ARP requests. See
+ FreeBSD-SA-03:14.arp.
+
20030915:
A change to /etc/defaults/rc.conf now causes inetd to be started
with `-C 60' if it is not overridden in /etc/rc.conf. This
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