FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-19:19.mldv2

Leif Pedersen leif at ofwilsoncreek.com
Thu Oct 17 18:18:10 UTC 2019


On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 5:06 AM Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.net> wrote:

> 15.10.2019 0:00, Fernando Gont wrote:
>
> >>> Since FreeBSD ships with IPv6 support enabled by default, aren't all
> >>> systems affected, one way or another?
> >>
> >> No, you have to configure IPv6, otherwise processing is not done.
> >
> > You mean that, out of the box, and without any explicit configuration,
> > IPv6 is not enabled?
>
> Precisely. IPv4 too, in fact.
>

True, except both IPv4 and IPv6 are configured for localhost by default.
That exception doesn't seem relevant to this SA, but it could matter in
others.

-Leif


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