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A 2.6 'packet of death' kernel vulnerability

A 2.6 'packet of death' kernel vulnerability

Posted Jul 1, 2004 9:10 UTC (Thu) by laf0rge (subscriber, #6469)
In reply to: A 2.6 'packet of death' kernel vulnerability by dbharris
Parent article: A 2.6 'packet of death' kernel vulnerability

This is totally independent from ip_conntrack. If you use ip_conntrack or not, doesn't matter. You have to have a rule matching on tcp options, though (as described in the advisory).


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