Subj : FreeBSD 4.3-RC buffer issue
To   : Tobias Ernst
From : Brad Laue
Date : Sat Apr 14 2001 06:48 pm

Hello Tobias!

Apr 14 2001 22:37, Tobias Ernst wrote to Brad Laue:

 TE> Hallo Brad!

 TE> Well, given that I myself developed the Unix ported of this thing 
 TE> here
 BL>> -+- Msged/BSD TE 06 (pre)
 TE> on FreeBSD even before I got to Linux, I am obviously using FreeBSD 
 TE> :-). The BSD box is my primary Unix machine at home, development 
 TE> machine, Internet gateway and firewall and all the stuff.

Hehe! :)

 TE> The FreeBSD box is a 4.3-BETA cvsupped a month ago or so, if you tell 
 TE> me where in the ports tree I can find nmap I can give the command 
 TE> from above a try. But I am not a FreeBSD developer, so whatever I 
 TE> find out it won't help. You'd best use send-pr to submit a high 
 TE> priority bug report.

Sure - it's in /usr/ports/security/nmap

If you find additional ways of causing the buffer overrun, I would love to hear
them. You have a bit wider variety of BSD systems than I do (I only have 3, all 

within a weeks cvsup of each other).

Cheers,
Brad

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