Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 15:02:37 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Morgan Davis" <mdavis@cts.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, wollman@FreeBSD.ORG, Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org>, freebsd-print@bostonradio.org Subject: Re: lpd: Malformed from address Message-ID: <p05100e0db73ee6778f2a@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <p05100e0cb73ebb1a651d@[128.113.24.47]> References: <000001c0eb56$6d6ae250$241978d8@cts.com> <p05100e0cb73ebb1a651d@[128.113.24.47]>
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At 12:54 PM -0400 6/2/01, I (Garance) wrote: >In a later message on 6/3/01, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: >>When I ported IPv6 support into FreeBSD from NetBSD, I wrongly >>brought reserved port checking code into FreeBSD. Originally, >>FreeBSD's lpd didn't check validity of connection by checking >>if it comes from reserved port. > >Hmm. I wonder if this is something that got dropped along >the way somewhere. The lpd I use at RPI *does* check that >jobs are coming from a reserved port, and I am pretty sure I >never wrote that code. That implies that it must have been >in whatever version of lpd that RPI started with A more awake person might have immediately remembered that the whole reason to keep CVS logs is so people can answer questions like this... It appears that freebsd's lpd lost this reserved-port check with version 1.6 of lpd, back in July of 1997. The comments for the change do not indicate why the check was dropped (and from the comments, it's not clear that the check was MEANT to be dropped...). My gut feeling is that the check is good to do, which gets us back to finding out why the implementation added with IPv6 does not seem to work for Morgan. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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