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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Wrobel <wrr@mixedbit.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] TCP conntrack patches
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 22:11:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120909201111.GA19595@1984> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1346442954-29047-1-git-send-email-kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>

Hi Jozsef,

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 09:55:52PM +0200, Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
> Hi Pablo,
> 
> Jan Wrobel wrote a nice article on off-path TCP attacks (see
> http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2074). He discovered two weaknesses
> in netfilter TCP conntrack, which make such attacks easier.
> The next two patches fixes the issues.
> 
> Please review them and consider applying them.

I think this can be considered security fixes, so I'll push this to
3.6-rc.

Thanks Jozsef.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-09 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-31 19:55 [PATCH 0/2] TCP conntrack patches Jozsef Kadlecsik
2012-08-31 19:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] netfilter: Mark SYN/ACK packets as invalid from original direction Jozsef Kadlecsik
2012-08-31 19:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] netfilter: Validate the sequence number of dataless ACK packets as well Jozsef Kadlecsik
2012-09-09 20:11 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]

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