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Authored by markj on Nov 22 2018, 8:04 PM.
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Summary

Various networking sysctls don't zero-fill their output and thus leak
padding bytes, mostly from the stack. Based on a report I audited a
number of sysctl handlers, especially those which export pcblists, and
fixed a number of leaks, some of which are quite large.

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