From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 21 23:51:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA20557 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 23:51:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from DonaldBurr.dyn.ml.org (206-18-115-79.la.inreach.net [206.18.115.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA20551 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 23:51:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dburr@POBoxes.com) Received: from DonaldBurr.DonaldBurr.dyn.ml.org (DonaldBurr.DonaldBurr.dyn.ml.org [192.160.60.1]) by DonaldBurr.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA19201 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 23:54:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dburr@POBoxes.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 23:50:41 -0800 (PST) Organization: Starfleet Command From: Donald Burr To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Linux IP fragmentation attack/hole: does it affect FreeBSD IP code? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Recently there was discovered a IP fragmentation trick that could crash a Linux machine. A patch was quickly released and fixed the problem. According to some though, the problem isn't confined to Linux. I was told that it would affect other IP implementations as well. (example: I am told that a Win95 patch has been released.) Does anyone know if this affects FreeBSD? If so, is there a patch in the works (hopefully against 2.2.5 -- please please please!) and how will we be informed? For information on the bug and the Linux patch, There's something about this on http://www.linux.org, I think... - --- Donald Burr - Ask me for my PGP key | PGP: Your WWW HomePage: http://DonaldBurr.base.org/ ICQ #1347455 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNHaPl/jpixuAwagxAQGg4gP+NEBguECLJqKSdlBD5MnlEdxS18JS2Kwh y5ZJ/MCZVnBh3nGiyzuC5zuXZlzsJHj+6kW33Zy9SkZdhW9VGIWo0+t1ecz18dJ+ dZ9Y8LcTaI/cPX9+DcmqcLlgt/lq0+sBMXMK/u9ekhBYpWvL88+kfm5GcLqh+Z/g Ms9hv0xd7Kw= =4sil -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----