Re: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (CVE-2016-6559)

This was fixed in NetBSD several hours ago.

On Wed, 7 Dec 2016, [email protected] wrote:

>> I just noticed this post:
>> https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/548487
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>> Is someone working on this?
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> The side-by-side view of yesterdays fix in FreeBSD looks like this:
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> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/lib/libc/net/linkaddr.c?r1=288045&r2=309639
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> and their original version was quite similar to the one in NetBSD.
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> Kai-Uwe
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