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[linux-security] Kernels 1.3.6[12] break IP firewalling

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6nig?=)
Mon Feb 12 07:37:09 1996

To: linux-security-announce@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 20:11:25 +0100 (MET)
From: Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6nig?=)


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The 1.3.61 and 1.3.62 kernels break IP firewalling due to new
setsockopt() arguments.

There is currently no publically available set of utilities to
make firewalling work under these kernels.

If you depend on firewalling, STAY AWAY FROM THESE KERNELS.
- -- 
Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet.
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
logarithmic diagram.

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