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From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jonathan@jonmasters.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	romieu@fr.zoreil.com, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] r8169: fix crash when large packets are received
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:59:02 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A2E2456.4020703@msgid.tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090608.195709.158667574.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller wrote:
> From: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:40:38 -0400
> 
>> CC -stable team - remote DoS with this hardware present.
> 
> "remote", if on the same physical subnet, otherwise easily protectable
> if not impossible to trigger

"remote" as "from outside of the host in question".
But still, this is definitely worth fixing.

Thanks.

/mjt

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-09  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-08 22:07 [patch] r8169: fix crash when large packets are received Eric Dumazet
2009-06-09  1:40 ` Jon Masters
2009-06-09  2:57   ` David Miller
2009-06-09  8:59     ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
2009-06-09 10:54       ` David Miller
2009-06-09 11:01 ` David Miller

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