Openbsd fixes icmp protocol bugs apparently ignored by the IETF

Tue Jul 12 13:04:49 UTC 2005

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:47:37PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> 
> 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.  

	Are you speaking of this, or is it more vulnerability
marketing?

http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/al-20050412-00308.html?lang=en

	- jared

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