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Date:      Sat, 12 Aug 2000 10:07:16 +0900
From:      itojun@iijlab.net
To:        JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: a serious bug fix about IPv6 for 4.1 and current
Message-ID:  <27152.966042436@coconut.itojun.org>
In-Reply-To: jinmei's message of Fri, 11 Aug 2000 22:00:41 JST. <y7v7l9oc5qe.wl@condor.isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>

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>We recently found a serios bug, which might cause kernel crash, in
>IPv6 code developed by the KAME project. Unfortunately, the bug has
>been merged into FreeBSD 4.1 (and current), and we confirmed kernel
>crash could happen on "pure" FreeBSD 4.1, too.
>
>The attached is a patch for FreeBSD 4.1 to fix the problem. If you
>enable IPv6 on FreeBSD 4.1 or current, please be sure to apply the
>fix. Also, I believe that it should be merged into the FreeBSD
>repository (I can't do this by myself, since I'm not a
>committer. Sorry about that).
>
>I'd really apologize for the messy bug.

	The patch is in freebsd repository, main trunc and RELENG_4 branch.
	netbsd-current, netbsd 1.5_ALPHA, openbsd 2.7, openbsd-current are
	not affected.

itojun


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