From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [vendor-sec] [SECURITY] Netfilter Security Advisory: NAT Remote DOS (SACK mangle)
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 13:03:00 -0400
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On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 04:34:17PM +0200, Netfilter Core Team wrote:

> Systems Affected:
> 
>   Linux 2.4.20 kernels and recent 2.5 kernels with
>   CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_FTP or CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_IRC enabled, or the
>   ip_nat_ftp or ip_nat_irc modules loaded, on which ftp and irc users
>   are not packet filtered out.

The other advisory contained an explicit statement about kernels other than
the ones mentioned, but this one did not.  So, just to clarify, am I correct
in inferring that pre-2.4.20 kernels are NOT affected by this bug?



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 - mdz