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Date:      Sat, 29 Nov 1997 08:52:26 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        "Daniel J. O'Connor" <darius@senet.com.au>
Cc:        Daniel Leeds <dleeds@dfacades.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: land patch? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971129085003.277A-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <199711290847.TAA14519@holly.rd.net>

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On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Daniel J. O'Connor wrote:

> 
> > is there a patch for freebsd 2.2.5 to defeat the land attack?
> > is it just one file in the kernel source tree that needs to be
> > rebuilt with the newest code?
> I tried this on my 2.2.2 machine, and it survived with no problems! :)
> Ditto for teardrop.

According to someone on BugTraq, a bug was "fixed" with the tcp-stack
after 2.2.2, that makes 2.2.5 machines vunerable to these attacks.
Patches should have already been checked into the source tree, and can be
retreived via cvsup or ctm (see the handbook
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook).

- alex




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