New OpenBSD security patches

From: Richard Trott (trottat_private)
Date: Tue Mar 23 1999 - 08:53:52 PST

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    Two new security patches for OpenBSD have been posted to
http://www.openbsd.org/security.html#24:

* Mar 22, 1999: The nfds argument for poll(2) needs to be constrained, to
avoid kvm starvation (patch included).

* Mar 21, 1999: A change in TSS handling stops another kernel crash
case caused by the crashme program (patch included).

Rich

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