Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 07:40:02 -0800 (PST) From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/2584: eliminate possible passive attack against ping(1) Message-ID: <199702131540.HAA18232@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2584; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, proff@iq.org Cc: Subject: Re: bin/2584: eliminate possible passive attack against ping(1) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 08:35:25 -0700 If you can't trust your resolver, then you are likely going to have a lot of problems all over the system. This attack requires there to be a bug in the resolver in order to even have a chance of succeeding. If that were the case, better to fix the resolver than to fix all places in the source tree where it returns data.
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