From owner-freebsd-security Wed May 5 16:16: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DE1B14E77 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 16:16:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (root@sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.191]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22419; Wed, 5 May 1999 16:16:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA25795; Wed, 5 May 1999 16:15:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA10024; Wed, 5 May 1999 16:15:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <199905052315.QAA10024@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 16:15:57 -0700 In-Reply-To: The Tech-Admin Dude "Re: freebsd mbuf crash" (May 5, 12:35am) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: The Tech-Admin Dude , Don Lewis Subject: Re: freebsd mbuf crash Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On May 5, 12:35am, The Tech-Admin Dude wrote: } Subject: Re: freebsd mbuf crash } Raise NMBCLUSTERS in kernel config file That's the fix for FreeBSD panics caused by running out of mbuf clusters. The exploit code that was posted triggered a bug in the IP reassembly code that was present in 3.0 between August and October last year (ip_input.c versions 1.100 through 1.102). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message