About The Project In November of 2022 the FreeBSD project announced CVE-2022-23093, a buffer overflow vulnerability in the ping utility. This blog post will analyze the vulnerability as well as document the steps to setup said environment to analyze the root cause of the issue with gdb. Illuminating the Security Advisory The FreeBSD advisory gave the following description to the vulnerability: ping reads raw IP packets from the network to process responses in the pr_pack() function.
