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 <li><font color=#009000><strong>024: SECURITY FIX: May 26, 2000</strong></font><br>  <li><font color=#009000><strong>024: SECURITY FIX: May 26, 2000</strong></font><br>
 Kernel contained an undocumented system call used to lock semaphore operations  Kernel contained an undocumented system call used to lock semaphore operations
 while they were being sampled by the ipcs(1) command.  This locking could be  while they were being sampled by the ipcs(1) command.  This locking could be
 used as a local denial of service attack which would block processes from  used as a local denial of service attack which would block the exiting of
 exiting.<br>  processes which had semaphore resources allocated. Processes not using
   semaphores are not affected, so the actual effect is very minimal.<br>
 <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/024_sysv_sem.patch>  <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/024_sysv_sem.patch>
 A jumbo patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>  A jumbo patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
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