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Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw



On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 05:19:21PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Why then is the sysctl present in the current Wheezy's 3.2 kernel ?
> 
> The patches which introduced the flawed feature were backported in 
> upstream 3.2.37 kernel.
> 
> <https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.37>

Oh, interesting.  Thank you for that.

Is it safe to say, then, that the flaw is potentially present in any kernel
where /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_challenge_ack_limit exists?  (Assuming that
there is a /proc file system at all.)


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