LWN: Comments on "A 2.6 'packet of death' kernel vulnerability" https://lwn.net/Articles/91914/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "A 2.6 'packet of death' kernel vulnerability". en-us Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:38:20 +0000 Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:38:20 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net A 2.6 'packet of death' kernel vulnerability https://lwn.net/Articles/92217/ https://lwn.net/Articles/92217/ MESMERIC Ah so that is why my ADSL has been dropping.<br>Explains it all.<br>They are after me!! Fri, 02 Jul 2004 01:50:30 +0000 A 2.6 'packet of death' kernel vulnerability https://lwn.net/Articles/92023/ https://lwn.net/Articles/92023/ laf0rge 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). Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:10:50 +0000 A 2.6 'packet of death' kernel vulnerability https://lwn.net/Articles/91990/ https://lwn.net/Articles/91990/ dbharris Does anybody know if this affects machines whose (netfilter, obviously) firewalls use state tracking? Thu, 01 Jul 2004 01:22:25 +0000 A 2.6 'packet of death' kernel vulnerability https://lwn.net/Articles/91968/ https://lwn.net/Articles/91968/ jamesm A fixed Fedora kernel is available, see<br>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2004-June/msg00054.html Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:28:48 +0000