Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 00:12:30 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads Up: Accept filters fixed Message-ID: <p05111723b8f51b6e6633@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20020430225620.D32402-200000@patrocles.silby.com> References: <20020430225620.D32402-200000@patrocles.silby.com>
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At 11:07 PM -0500 4/30/02, Mike Silbersack wrote: >Just a quick note for those of you using accept filters with >a 4.4+ kernel using the syncache: Your accept filters are >broken, and easily DoSable. > >The fix (attached) has now been committed to both 5.0 and 4.5, >so I recommend doing one of two things if you're using accept >filters: How seriously are they broken? Should this be MFC'ed into RELENG_4_5 ? (security-patches branch) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.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-stable" in the body of the message
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