FreeBSD Foundation Hands Out Beacon Gongs For Safer Software

Ping of death! FreeBSD fixes crashtastic bug in network tool

It's a venerable program, and this version had a venerable bug in it.

Critical Ping Vulnerability Allows Remote Attackers to Take Over FreeBSD Systems

The maintainers of the FreeBSD operating system have released updates to remediate a security vulnerability impacting the ping module that could be potentially exploited to crash the program or trigger remote code execution. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2022-23093, impacts all supported versions of FreeBSD and concerns a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the ping service. "