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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@samplonius.org>
To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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Cc: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: UFS Bug: FreeBSD 6.1/6.2/7.0: MOKB-08-11-2006, CVE-2006-5824,
 MOKB-03-11-2006, CVE-2006-5679
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----- O. Hartmann <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> These two bugs are shown for FreeBSD only and I guess, Solaris and
> other 
> BSDs  still use UFS. Are they more robust against this exploit or type
> 
> of exploit?
> On the other hand, if these shown bugs aren't as serious as claimed be
> 
> the mentioned page, it sounds more like 'look, we also found on
> FreeBSD 
> something strange, not even on Linux'.
> 
> But it is good to know and be aware of.
> 
> Regards,
> Oliver

  The two bugs shown are for FreeBSD, but the site (http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/) lists at least three filesystem "bugs" for Linux too.


Tom