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Date:      Thu, 10 Dec 2020 09:53:02 -0500
From:      Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org>
To:        "Wall, Stephen" <stephen.wall@redcom.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Security Advisories <security-advisories@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-security@freebsd.org" <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-20:31.icmp6
Message-ID:  <X9I2TrDEO2401ciQ@raichu>
In-Reply-To: <DM6PR09MB4807C384E146DCE0C3617FC2EECC0@DM6PR09MB4807.namprd09.prod.outlook.com>
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On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 03:45:13PM +0000, Wall, Stephen wrote:
> This advisory states "Systems with IPv6 disabled are not affected."  What constitutes disabling IPv6 in this context?  Would it require disabling it when building the kernel, or is `ipv6_enable="NO"` in `rc.conf` sufficient?

The latter should be sufficient.  The kernel will drop IPv6 packets
received on an interface with the IFDISABLED flag set, and they won't
reach the affected code.



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