Re: pkg/49860: DoS against snmpd on netbsd routers

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

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From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
	pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 6bone%6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/49860: DoS against snmpd on netbsd routers
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 08:07:21 -0400

 On Apr 28,  6:25am, 6bone%6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de@localhost (6bone%6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de@localhost) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: pkg/49860: DoS against snmpd on netbsd routers
 
 |  It looks as if the breakpoint is never reached.
 |  
 |  I have repeatedly interrupted the program and generates an output of 
 |  where.
 
 Looks like that qsort is deadly... I wonder why it thinks it needs to
 sort something all the time. The arp stuff looks suspect as expected.
 (if it is related to ndp). I am not sure if I have time to optimize the
 code, but using a hashmap instead of sorting seems to be a good thing
 to do.
 
 christos