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NetBSD 10.2 security fixes close a remote kernel bug in ipfilter

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A NetBSD box at the edge of a network, filtering traffic with ipfilter, has been carrying a kernel flaw that someone outside the machine can set off. The bug is a remotely triggerable null pointer dereference in ipfilter, meaning the kernel tries to read memory through a pointer that leads nowhere. In kernel code, that

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