Checking Ping utility in OpenBSD has revealed an error present since 1998

published the results of the Ping utility from the OpenBSD utility, carried out after the recent detection of the remote vulnerability in the Ping utility supplied to FreebSD. The Ping utility supplied to OpenBSD is not subject to the problem identified in FreeBSD (vulnerability is present in the new implementation of the PR_PACK () function, rewritten by FreeBSD developers in 2019), but during the audit there was another error that remained unnoticed for 24 years. The error leads to endless baking when processing a response with zero size of the Option field in an IP package. Correction is already included

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