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Critical Ping Vulnerability Allows Remote Attackers to Take Over FreeBSD Systems

The maintainers of the FreeBSD operating system have released updates to remediate a security vulnerability impacting the ping module that could be potentially exploited to crash the program or trigger remote code execution. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2022-23093, impacts all supported versions of FreeBSD and concerns a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the ping service. "ping reads raw IP packets from the network to process responses in the pr_pack() function," according to an advisory published last week.

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https://thehackernews.com/2022/12/critical-ping-vulnerability-allows.html