[6858] in bugtraq
Re: FreeBSD 2.2.5R - FreeBSD Current "SMURF" Vulnerability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Greenman)
Fri May 29 13:59:15 1998
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 18:03:16 -0700
Reply-To: dg@root.com
From: David Greenman <dg@ROOT.COM>
X-To: Joe Traister <traister@GATE.NET>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 May 1998 13:58:09 EDT."
<Pine.A32.3.93.980527135357.6756B-100000@tequesta.gate.net>
>I opened PR kern/5294 against 2.2.5R and provided a patch for this problem
>in December, currently the PR is 'suspended, awaiting committer'. See
For whatever reason, I didn't see that PR when it was filed. Apparantly
Garrett didn't see it either, since when I brought up the issue with him,
that was the first he'd heard of it. My apologies that the bug went unfixed
for so long - you should have been more persistent. :-)
As it turns out, the proper fix is to not check the multicast address. The
check for the MCAST/BCAST flags is quite sufficient.
-DG
David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
