[19505] in bugtraq
Re: Loopback and multi-homed routing flaw in TCP/IP stack.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Damerell)
Tue Mar 6 13:25:17 2001
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 17:21:55 +0000
Reply-To: djsd100@cam.ac.uk
From: David Damerell <djsd100@cam.ac.uk>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
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On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Lothar Beta wrote:
>The default "simple" firewall rules for ipfw in FreeBSD specify that
>packets destined for the 127.0.0.0/8 network not coming from the lo0
>device will be dropped.
Debian GNU/Linux installations nowadays will attempt to set up spoof
protection, with similar effects.
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David Damerell, Computer Officer, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge
Work: djsd100@cam.ac.uk Personal: damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk
These are my opinions, not those of the Department as a whole.
