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Date:      Mon, 19 Aug 2002 12:05:11 -0400
From:      Brad Laue <brad@brad-x.com>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:38.signed-error
Message-ID:  <3D611737.4010803@brad-x.com>
References:  <200208191256.g7JCuNAd018797@freefall.freebsd.org>

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FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote:
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 > FreeBSD-SA-02:38.signed-error                               Security 
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 > Topic:          Boundary checking errors involving signed integers

This might be an obtuse question, but I'm going to risk it and ask anyway.

Given that accept(2) and getpeername(2) are vulnerable one would think
this were remotely exploitable, but I'm not familiar enough to say this
for certain.

Is this a remotely exploitable issue, or only local?

Brad

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