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Re: Kernel 2.4.21 Forwarding table vulnerability



Why download the source from RedHat? The source from debian is also
patched with needed patches.

apt-get install kernel-source

On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 19:05, Bruce Banner wrote:
> You can download Red Hats  
> kernel-source-2.4.20-19.9.i386.rpm run alien against
> it and install the dpkg'ed kernel-source.deb.  I have
> been forced to do this in the past to get patches that
> havn't been released or in the main stream kernel from
> kernel.org yet.
> 
> 
> Peace
> --- Phillip Hofmeister <plhofmei@zionlth.org> wrote:
> > If I do use bridging...is there a patch?
> > 
> > What is the consequences of an unpatched system? (In
> > more detail than
> > below)
> > 
> > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 at 07:39:53PM +1000, Herbert Xu
> > wrote:
> > > Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> > > > Bruce Banner <bruc3_banner@yahoo.com> writes:
> > > > 
> > > >> CAN-2003-0552: Jerry Kreuscher discovered that
> > the Forwarding table
> > > >> could be spoofed by sending forged packets with
> > bogus source
> > > >> addresses the same as the local host.
> > > > 
> > > > Ah, this one.  I don't even know if it's about
> > IP.
> > > > 
> > > > As usual, Red Hat's advisory is a joke. *sigh*
> > > 
> > > If you don't use bridging then it doesn't affect
> > you.
> > > -- 
> > > Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! (
> > http://www.debian.org/ )
> > > Email:  Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~}
> > <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> > > Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
> > > PGP Key:
> > http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Phillip Hofmeister
> > 
> > PGP/GPG Key:
> > http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/
> > wget -O - http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/key.txt |
> > gpg --import
> > --
> > Excuse #20: Monitor resolution too high 
> > 
> > 
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