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Openbsd fixes icmp protocol bugs apparently ignored by the IETF

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Tue Jul 12 04:19:18 2005

Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:47:37 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
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And the guy who did this says that someone at cisco called him a
terrorist, and that the IETF ignored him .. but Theo deRaadt believes
him, and puts his changes into the openbsd codebase.

All for your basic ICMP source quench / hard ICMP error exploits, from
a quick read through

http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382

Oh well, makes interesting reading if nothing else. =20

--=20
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)

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