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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:58:44 +0200
From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: security@...nel.org, Karsten Keil <kkeil@...e.de>
Subject: Re: security problem in ESP fragment handling?
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:21:18AM -0400, Steven M. Christey wrote:
>
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Marcus Meissner wrote:
>
> > According to Karsten Keil just ESP fragment packets need to be accepted
> > by the kernel to trigger the condition.
> > We think this might be true for all 2.6 kernels (ever since esp.c got added)
>
> Any idea what the starting version might be?
2.6.0 (introduced during 2.5 development).
> Also, you mentioned a hang, but the commit says a BUG() is generated. is
> this just based on different inputs?
I think the BUG() will kill the network event handler thread, but I let
the experts comment here.
Ciao, Marcus
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