Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:28:46 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-08:02.libc Message-ID: <200801150428.m0F4SaH1084137@lava.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <200801142309.m0EN9has056540@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200801142309.m0EN9has056540@freefall.freebsd.org>
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At 06:09 PM 1/14/2008, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote:
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>FreeBSD-SA-08:02.libc Security Advisory
> The FreeBSD Project
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>Topic: inet_network() buffer overflow
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>For programs which passes untrusted data to inet_network(), an
>attacker may be able to overwrite a region of memory with user defined
>data by causing specially crafted input to be passed to
>inet_network().
For the "usual suspects" of applications running, (e.g. sendmail,
apache, BIND etc) would it be possible to pass crafted packets
through to this function remotely via those apps ? ie how easy is this to do ?
---Mike
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