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Date:      Tue, 03 Sep 2024 17:42:34 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        net@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 280701] FreeBSD-SA-24:05 fix breaks ICMP/ICMP6 states handling in pf firewall (ping, traceroute)
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--- Comment #65 from Gordon Tetlow <gordon@FreeBSD.org> ---
In reply to doktornotor from comment #64:
> Not sure about other people here suffering from the regressions, but I'd
> seriously appreciate some form of communication beyond automated
> commit-hook@ messages.
While I can't address the rest of this comment, in regards to more
communication, secteam will publish an erratum for this issue shortly. We a=
re
letting it sit for a hot minute to ensure we don't have (additional) breaka=
ges.
As you can imagine, the last thing we want to do is issue an erratum for an
erratum.

There was also a question earlier from comment #40:
> How's this whole thing a security issue deserving an SA and urgent patchi=
ng
> causing the above regressions which are impacting real network operation =
and
> many users, goes beyond me, sorry.=20
As to the question of why the original "fix" was treated as a security advi=
sory
=E2=80=93 The issue was originally brought to us by an external researcher =
(as credited
in the SA-24:05.pf write up) as a security issue, so there was an anchoring
bias. secteam did have a debate internally as to whether it should be a
security advisory or an erratum. Ultimately, we decided to call it an SA du=
e to
the fact that security software on the system was behaving in an unexpected=
 way
and allowing things through that it shouldn't have. I, with my security-off=
icer
hat on, stand by this decision and would likely make the same one given the
same facts today.

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