From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 22 05:38:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B938216A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 05:38:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.celabo.org (gw.celabo.org [208.42.49.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88FD343D39 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 05:38:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@celabo.org) Received: from madman.celabo.org (madman.celabo.org [10.0.1.111]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "madman.celabo.org", Issuer "celabo.org CA" (not verified)) by gw.celabo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 269FD54840; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 07:38:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: by madman.celabo.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C7EC76D479; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 07:38:58 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 07:38:58 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Frankye - ML , freebsd-security@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040422123858.GG29225@madman.celabo.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Frankye - ML , freebsd-security@freebsd.org References: <200404210158.i3L1wxoM010197@caligula.anu.edu.au> <20040422135112.21abe234@godzilla> <20040422121156.GC29225@madman.celabo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040422121156.GC29225@madman.celabo.org> X-Url: http://www.celabo.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: Fw: [bugtraq] NetBSD Security Advisory 2004-006: TCP protocol and implementation vulnerability X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:38:59 -0000 Oh but to answer your implied question `does this help': NetBSD has implemented the IETF TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions Working Group (tcpm-wg) TCP security considerations Internet-Draft, but as you can see from recent discussion on this list (or practically any other networking-related forum lately) implementing it as currently written could have negative effects. I'm counting on our networking guys ``doing the right thing.'' Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@freebsd.org