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Re: security problem in ESP fragment handling?

From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:21:18 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Marcus Meissner wrote:

According to Karsten Keil just ESP fragment packets need to be accepted
by the kernel to trigger the condition.
We think this might be true for all 2.6 kernels (ever since esp.c got added)


Any idea what the starting version might be?

Also, you mentioned a hang, but the commit says a BUG() is generated.  is
this just based on different inputs?

- Steve

Current thread:

security problem in ESP fragment handling? Marcus Meissner (Apr 30)
- Re: security problem in ESP fragment handling? Steven M. Christey (Apr 30)
  - Re: security problem in ESP fragment handling? Marcus Meissner (Apr 30)
- Re: security problem in ESP fragment handling? Mark J Cox (Apr 30)
  - Re: security problem in ESP fragment handling? Marcus Meissner (Apr 30)