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| author | imp <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-04-01 00:32:18 +0000 |
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| committer | imp <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-04-01 00:32:18 +0000 |
| commit | 64af92eaa57c6aeb1fed4ca6a1316114b6e07ffd (patch) | |
| tree | 89d363998a6c040b02fc998b3074a680a680d569 /sbin/ping/ping.8 | |
| parent | 0b984010ad50c53381a5c56153acb2c2a6d637e2 (diff) | |
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A fairly rare possible buffer overflow:
Theo fixed this and tqbf reported it
Obtained from: OpenBSD
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/ping/ping.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/ping/ping.8 | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/ping/ping.8 b/sbin/ping/ping.8 index befbef0..76bb090 100644 --- a/sbin/ping/ping.8 +++ b/sbin/ping/ping.8 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" @(#)ping.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93 -.\" $Id: ping.8,v 1.12 1997/07/18 17:52:03 wollman Exp $ +.\" $Id: ping.8,v 1.13 1998/03/19 07:45:57 charnier Exp $ .\" .Dd March 1, 1997 .Dt PING 8 @@ -173,6 +173,9 @@ the .Xr traceroute 8 command is usually better at determining the route packets take to a particular destination. +If more routes come back than should, such as due to an illegal spoofed +packet, ping will print the route list and then truncate it at the correct +spot. Many hosts ignore or discard the .Tn RECORD_ROUTE option. |
