Any status on timestamp vulnerability fix for 4.X?

Uwe Doering gemini at geminix.org
Sat Jun 25 11:06:32 GMT 2005


Richard Coleman wrote:
> Any information on when (or if) the following timestamp vulnerability 
> will be fixed for 4.X?  Any information would be appreciated.
> 
> http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/637934

FYI, the fix for RELENG_5 applies to RELENG_4 as is (apart from the CVS 
version header, of course):

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c.diff?r1=1.252.2.15&r2=1.252.2.16&f=u

After verifying its semantic correctness for RELENG_4 we've been running 
the patch for a couple of weeks now with no ill effects.

I'm posting this also as an encouragement for committers to go ahead and 
do the MFC.  It's low hanging fruit.

    Uwe
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