From owner-freebsd-security Tue Nov 7 10:27:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (mail.dobox.com [208.187.122.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F60837B479 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 10:27:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13tDTk-0000KO-00 for security@freebsd.org; Tue, 07 Nov 2000 11:28:16 -0700 Message-ID: <3A0849C0.750F0EF6@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 11:28:16 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-00:61.tcpdump [REISSUED] References: <20001106195827.5C6BA37B4CF@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote: > > II. Problem Description > > Several overflowable buffers were discovered in the version of tcpdump > included in FreeBSD, during internal source code auditing. Does this problem manifest itself in the ethereal port as well? I don't know how closely related the code between the two might be. I've taken a cursory look and it isn't identical, but tcpdump is mentioned several places in the source. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message