El Fri, 02 Feb 2024 08:54:58 -0700
"Theo de Raadt" <[email protected]> escribió:
> tcpdump will *NEVER* be updated to newer code, because our tcpdump is
> a significant rewrite for privsep.  The upstream tcpdump developers
> don't understand what privsep is.
> 
> This means the parsers are run without any permissions.  They should
> still be correct (so someone will look at this diff), but exploitation
> of bugs, beyond a boring crash, is exceedingly difficult.
> 

As Theo says, the implementation of tcpdump in OpenBSD is completely
different and the checks performed on the functions pointed by the
commits are treated differently due to privsep on OpenBSD.

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