> NetBSD 10.2 security fixes close a remote kernel bug in ipfilter

A NetBSD box at the edge of a network, filtering traffic with ipfilter, has been carrying a kernel flaw that someone outside the machine can set off. The bug is a remotely triggerable null pointer dereference in ipfilter, meaning the kernel tries to read memory through a pointer that leads nowhere. In kernel code, that usually ends with the whole system going down. The NetBSD Project shipped the fix on September 15 in NetBSD 10.2, … More → The post NetBSD 10.2 security fixes close a remote kernel bug in ipfilter appeared first on Help Net Security.