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Is this advisory available anywhere else?  I'm continually getting
server timeout when trying to load this URL.  Meanwhile www.openssh.org
doesn't seem to have any mention of the advisory.  [?]

-Mitch

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:

> OK, an official OpenSSH advisory was released, see here:
> <URL: http://www.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-announce/2003-September/000063.html >
>
> The fix is currently in FreeBSD -CURRENT and -STABLE.  It will be
> applied to the security branches as well today.  Attached are patches:
>
>    buffer46.patch -- For FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE and later
>    buffer45.patch -- For FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE and earlier
>
> Currently, I don't believe that this bug is actually exploitable for
> code execution on FreeBSD, but I reserve the right to be wrong :-)
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Jacques Vidrine   . NTT/Verio SME      . FreeBSD UNIX       . Heimdal
> nectar@celabo.org . jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@freebsd.org . nectar@kth.se