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Re: Does anybody knows of this security problem in the kernel?



Haim Ashkenazi <haim@consonet.com> writes:

> if I'll patch "ipt_conntrack.c" in the kernel-source with that patch I
> won't have to worry about the filtering in the PREROUTING chain?

You have to filter in the PREROUTING chain to protect the routing
cache, otherwise the machine will die when flooded with packets with
random source or destination addresses.



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