[11296] in bugtraq
Re: Linux blind TCP spoofing, act II + others
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Fri Aug 6 21:46:46 1999
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Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:24:38 +0100
Reply-To: Alan Cox <alan@LXORGUK.UKUU.ORG.UK>
From: Alan Cox <alan@LXORGUK.UKUU.ORG.UK>
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In-Reply-To: <199908050046.EAA02943@false.com> from "Solar Designer" at Aug 5,
99 04:46:12 am
> So, the version of my patch for 2.0.34 didn't need to fix this any
> more. Of course, future updates of the patch I was making based on
> the latest one, and never bothered to check for this bug again.
>
> Now, after your post, I am looking at patch-2.0.35.gz:
>
> - return 0;
> + return 1;
>
> So, the "feature" got re-introduced in 2.0.35. I don't know of the
> reason for this. I can only guess that the other major TCP changes
It was put back into 2.0.35 because the "fix" caused interoperability
problems with many other stacks.
Alan
