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Date:      Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:07:40 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@freebsd.org>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-20:10.ipfw
Message-ID:  <8067db19-fee5-ce20-ab42-060c26736849@grosbein.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2CoqK%2BLsbYX3%2BTtC3hmieRQ1s2SV5f4LjeH0pqZTa9SEg@mail.gmail.com>
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22.04.2020 6:55, Ed Maste wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 18:50, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I believe this is correct; what about this statement:
>>>
>>> No workaround is available.  Systems not using the ipfw firewall, and
>>> systems that use the ipfw firewall but without any rules using "tcpoptions"
>>> or "tcpmss" keywords, are not affected.
>>
>> Isn't removing rules with "tcpoptions/tcpmss" considered as work-around?
>>
>> Such rules may be replaced with "ipfw netgraph" rules and processing TCP options
>> with NETGRAPH node ng_bpf(4). Seems as work-around to me.
> 
> Fair enough, although I don't want to provide that as an official
> suggestion in the advisory without testing and understanding the
> caveats, so probably just removing the "No workaround is available."
> 
> So perhaps:
> Systems not using the ipfw firewall, and systems that use the ipfw firewall
> but with no rules using "tcpoptions" or "tcpmss" keywords, are not affected.

I like it.





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