Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:17:34 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>, Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>, Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org>, aschneid@mail.slc.edu, ras@e-gerbil.net, roam@orbitel.bg, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/22595: telnetd tricked into using arbitrary peer ip Message-ID: <200107231117.f6NBHYg61233@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> of "Mon, 23 Jul 2001 03:20:02 PDT." <200107231020.f6NAK2f98702@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Matt wrote:
> > Pretty much our only option is to extend the size of existing fields
> > and take the 'oh hell the structure size changed' hit.
I wrote:
> Ok, I agree. I think we should bump UT_HOSTSIZE to 40 then and only
> put unscoped addresses in the field (ie, fec0::1, not fec0::1%vr0).
>
> Any disagreements ? Should this be brought up (explained) on -arch
> now ?
Interestingly enough, OpenBSD has UT_HOSTSIZE set to 256.
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