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COMMAND ipfw SYSTEMS AFFECTED FreeBSD PROBLEM Darren Reed found following. If someone is doing packet filtering using ipfw to do packet filtering with a FreeBSD box configured to do bridging, it is relatively easy to make the box go "boom" as none of the standard header sanity checks are done prior to the filter routine being called (check /sys/net/bridge.c). SOLUTION It is a feature "copied" from OpenBSD but somehow large amounts of code were not copied and bugs resulted.