From owner-freebsd-security Sun May 17 12:56:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07696 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 12:56:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gvr.gvr.org (guido@gvr.gvr.org [194.151.74.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07573 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 12:56:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from guido@gvr.org) Received: (from guido@localhost) by gvr.gvr.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id VAA03357; Sun, 17 May 1998 21:55:19 +0200 (MET DST) From: Guido van Rooij Message-Id: <199805171955.VAA03357@gvr.gvr.org> Subject: Re: Why aren't security fixes posted to security-announce? In-Reply-To: from Snob Art Genre at "May 14, 98 05:47:43 pm" To: ben@rosengart.com Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 21:55:19 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, fpscha@schapachnik.com.ar, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Snob Art Genre wrote: > On Thu, 14 May 1998, Guido van Rooij wrote: > > > Will arrive soon. I was just busy with the ttcp advisory. > > Speaking of which, what does your patch do? It makes sure that only those programs that explicitly set the TCP_NOPUSH option (and are this ttcp aware) will be able to get ttcp connections. The r-* services do not set this option and thus accelerated opens are not allow to the ports they listen() on. -Guido To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message