On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 01:57:33PM -0400, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:

> There is one patch you need to implement on the FreeBSD kernel in order
> to not suffer a buffer overflow in one of the function that qmail uses.
> This buffer overflow will effectively replace the address for the MAIL
> FROM command of outgoing smtp session with crap leading in email
> rejections from remote smtp servers.
> 
> Note that this bug affects FreeBSD, but may also be present in other BSD
> based TCP/IP implementations.
> 
> The file to patch is /usr/src/sys/net/if.c, the attached patch is
> against the current RELENG_4 version.

Has anyone else encountered this?  Is this a major problem?

Ben

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