Latest OpenBSD Patches

February 8, 2004 at 9:26 pm (BSD)

Okay, here’s the dope on the latest patches:

015: SECURITY FIX: February 5, 2004
A reference counting bug exists in the shmat(2) system call that could be
used by an attacker to write to kernel memory under certain circumstances.
A source code patch exists which remedies the problem.
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.3/common/015_sysvshm.patch

016: SECURITY FIX: February 8, 2004
An IPv6 MTU handling problem exists that could be used by an attacker to
cause a denial of service attack against hosts with reachable IPv6 TCP ports.
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.3/common/015_sysvshm.patch

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