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Openbsd fixes icmp protocol bugs apparently ignored by the IETF

  • From: Suresh Ramasubramanian
  • Date: Tue Jul 12 04:20:28 2005
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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.  

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Suresh Ramasubramanian ([email protected])