OpenBSD Journal

RELIABILITY FIX - getsockop

Contributed by grey on from the don't panic dept.

Thanks to Brad Smith for informing us about the following patch:

As discovered by Stefan Miltchev calling getsockopt(2) to get ipsec(4) credentials for a socket can result in a kernel panic. A source code patch exists which remedies this problem:

Here for 3.7
and Here for 3.6

As always, be sure to check http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html as well.

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  1. By boris (218.103.119.24) on

    thanks brad and stefan

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