Re: Routingtable vulnerability
The fix has been fixed as 2.4.21-rc4 I believe. The
original patch by redhat was in 2.4.21-rc3
Peace
--- Peter Billson <pete@elbnet.com> wrote:
> Thomas,
> My brother tells me that there has been some
> discussion about this on
> the kernel list. RedHat's patch was applied to
> 2.4.21 (plus 2.5.69) but
> people are reporting that the patch breaks other
> things so it is not yet
> ready for prime time.
>
> At this point this remains only a theoretical flaw
> which someone
> noticed while hacking on the kernel. No one has
> shown an actual exploit.
>
> Until the kernel hackers can do their thing, there
> isn't much the
> Debian project can do. You may want to monitor the
> kernel list for more
> up-to-date information.
>
> Pete
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> Thomas Hebinck wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there really nobody who knows anything about
> this vulnerability?
> > We use Debian Woody as firewall ...
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Thomas
> >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: www-data [mailto:www-data@gauner.org]On
> Behalf Of
> > >dominik.schulz@gauner.org
> > >Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 11:50 AM
> > >To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org
> > >Subject: Routingtable vulnerability
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Due to the fact that I'm only subscribed to two
> Debian related Mailinglists
> > >(debian-isp and security-announce) I haven't
> heard of any discussions about the
> > >newly discoverd Kernel vulnerability
> (Routingtables,
> > >http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-172.html).
> > >Has this been discussed on Debian-Lists and are
> there any countermesasures
> > >recommended?
> > >
> > >Best Regards,
> > >Dominik Schulz
> > >
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