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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: pochini@shiny.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com, cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com,
	joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de
Subject: Re: tcp vulnerability?  haven't seen anything on it here...
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:28:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040422112801.2a1a4a57.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0404220734330.8039@chaos>

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 07:35:54 -0400 (EDT)
"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> wrote:

> Has anybody checked to see what Linux does if it receives a
> RST to the broadcast address? It would be a shame if all
> connections were dropped!

int tcp_v4_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
 ...
	if (skb->pkt_type != PACKET_HOST)
		goto discard_it;

Packets which are multicast or broadcast do not get marked
as "PACKET_HOST".

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-22 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-21 15:25 tcp vulnerability? haven't seen anything on it here Chris Friesen
2004-04-21 16:02 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-04-21 16:25   ` Chris Friesen
2004-04-21 17:03     ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-21 20:20       ` David S. Miller
2004-04-22  0:45         ` James Morris
2004-04-22  5:04           ` Willy Tarreau
2004-04-22  8:23         ` Giuliano Pochini
2004-04-22 11:35           ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-04-22 13:17             ` Willy Tarreau
2004-04-22 13:42               ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-04-22 14:18                 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-04-22 20:25                   ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-04-22 21:08                     ` Willy Tarreau
2004-04-22 18:28             ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-04-22 13:22           ` jamal
2004-04-22 13:46             ` Giuliano Pochini
2004-04-22 14:27               ` jamal
2004-04-22 14:37                 ` alex
2004-04-22 15:17                   ` jamal
2004-04-22 15:27                     ` alex
2004-04-22 17:38                       ` Horst von Brand
2004-04-22 21:15                         ` Florian Weimer
2004-04-22 15:42                   ` Chris Friesen
2004-04-22 15:47                     ` alex
2004-04-23 10:31                   ` Florian Weimer
2004-04-22 13:58             ` Florian Weimer
2004-04-23 13:55             ` Florian Weimer
2004-04-23 14:15             ` alex
2004-04-23 14:25               ` jamal
2004-04-22 20:01         ` Ranjeet Shetye
2004-04-22 21:26         ` Sridhar Samudrala

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