Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 11:07:44 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: jesper@skriver.dk, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, security-officer@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_icmp.c tcp_subr.c tcp_var.h Message-ID: <17659.977047664@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Dec 2000 01:54:14 PST." <20001217015414.A18302@citusc.usc.edu>
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In message <20001217015414.A18302@citusc.usc.edu>, Kris Kennaway writes: >The attack I'm thinking of involves flooding a machine with (possibly >spoofed) ICMP packets which would effectively deny the ability for >that machine to connect to its destination. To quote Bruce "we have better panic(8) implementations that that". >If this attack is possible then I'm unhappy having this code in >FreeBSD, even disabled by default..RFC be damned :-) I'll let Jesper defend his own code, he's CC'ed... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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