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Developers have quashed a potentially nasty security bug in FreeBSD. Security researchers at Norse discovered that a programming error creating a buffer overflow in the stdio (standard I/O) library's __sflush( ) function. The bug created a possible mechanism to inject hostile code into vulnerable systems running the open …

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    How's that for response time! Good job from all involved.

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