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Subject: Re: FreeBSD TCP stack and RST processing [subj changed]
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>    This appears to have been broken in rev 1.52:

[ ... diff ... ]

Forget my other posting -- I see the problem now.  I still think it
requires a trojan connect to trigger it: the attacking system has to get
you to connect to it.  For normal traffic, sendmail is the only push-model
interface, where the sever connects, I think.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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