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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 address a security vulnerability impacting the ping module. A malicious actor could exploit this vulnerability to crash the program or trigger remote code execution.

For a complete description of the vulnerabilities and affected systems go to FreeBSD-SA-22:15.ping.

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