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Date:      Wed, 5 Oct 2011 10:18:38 -0700
From:      Ted Faber <faber@isi.edu>
To:        Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>
Cc:        "S.N.Grigoriev" <serguey-grigoriev@yandex.ru>, Piotr Kubaj <pkubaj@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: linux-f10-flashplugin
Message-ID:  <20111005171838.GA18896@vim.isi.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1tFtc4HwurNO9sYiFPWW6J0UZzjP8Q7beFOn80Tg7o-7w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 08:55:56AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> For those who missed it, this is a problem in the Linux emulation. See
> the announcement from the the FreeBSD Security Officer. for details,
> but the recent security patch triggered the problem by adding  check
> for the _UN data structure which is 4 bytes longer in Linux than on
> FreeBSD. The emulation layer has been passing the structure unmodified
> to the kernel and it is now being rejected.The message states that
> Colin is working on a patch to the emulation code which should be
> available shortly.
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> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D14130+0+current/freebsd-em=
ulation

I installed 8-STABLE from sources today and this fix is in there and
works for me.

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