Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:11:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Alexander Sanda <entropy@compufit.at> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nestea fix on 3.0-* Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9810291010230.366-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810281646230.997-100000@darkstar.vmx>
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On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Alexander Sanda wrote: > > Hi > > I have running some systems, which I recently upgraded to 3.0-RELEASE. > Everything is running fine, but I would feel more comfortable with a > kernel not vulnerable to the Nestea (sp?) attack. > > So is it safe, to install a -current kernel on a 3.0-RELEASE system ? I > mainly ask, because I noticed a lot of changes under src/sys recently. > > Or should I only checkout netinet/ip_input.c and recompile the kernel ? For what its worth, the change to ip_input.c has no dependencies (as far as I know) to any other recent kernel changes. You can safely update this one file. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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