Openbsd fixes icmp protocol bugs apparently ignored by the IETF

Suresh Ramasubramanian ops.lists at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 08:17:37 UTC 2005


And the guy who did this says that someone at cisco called him a
terrorist, and that the IETF ignored him .. but Theo deRaadt believes
him, and puts his changes into the openbsd codebase.

All for your basic ICMP source quench / hard ICMP error exploits, from
a quick read through

http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382

Oh well, makes interesting reading if nothing else.  

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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)



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