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Security Advisory for FreeBSD Ping Stack-Based Overflow CVE-2022-23093
Dec. 10, 2022, 1:19 a.m. | Jithin Nair
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Background
On Dec 01, 2022, a stack overflow vulnerability CVE-2022-23093 was found in the FreeBSD operating system (all supported versions) ping utility. The issue is a buffer overflow vulnerability affecting the “pr_pack()” function in ping(8). The flaw can be leveraged to cause a stack overflow, which could lead to a crash or trigger remote code execution in ping.
What is the issue?
The following vulnerability details were published in the FreeBSD security advisory
Ping reads raw IP packets from the …
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