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Date:      Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:44:27 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Rob Simmons <rsimmons@wlcg.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: netbsd vulnerabilities
Message-ID:  <20010907134427.A55600@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010907120248.V78071-100000@mail.wlcg.com>; from rsimmons@wlcg.com on Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:09:39PM -0400
References:  <20010907120248.V78071-100000@mail.wlcg.com>

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On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:09:39PM -0400, Rob Simmons wrote:
> Is FreeBSD affected by either of the new vulnerabilities NetBSD just
> released, 2001-015 and 2001-016?
> 
> 2001-015 = "Insufficient checking of lengths passed from userland to
> kernel."

I don't know about this one.. we may be.  Someone will have to look
into it.

> 2001-016 = "unsafe chdir usage in fts(3)."

We fixed that one several months ago..they even credit us in the advisory.

Kris

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