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Re:Serious localhost vulnerability found in FreeBSD by stingraycharles on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @12:10PM (#970101)
So this is not true ?

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2009-Nove...

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Re:Serious localhost vulnerability found in FreeBSD by cperciva on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @12:26PM (#970145)
So this is not true ?

If you mean the bit about 7.0 not being vulnerable, yes. The exploit code posted is slightly buggy, which is probably responsible for the false positive.

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