mbuf vulnerability

Mike Silbersack silby at silby.com
Tue Mar 2 09:40:30 PST 2004


On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Darren Reed wrote:

> Uh, what did you test and what did you test with ?

FreeBSD 4.9 with ipf.

> "strict" requires that the sequence number in packet n should match
> what that sequence number of the last byte in packet n-1 - i.e. no
> out of order delivery is permitted.
>
> Darren

strict isn't in the ipf manpage, and ipf complains when I try using it.

I did some more google searching which implies that "strict" is available
in ipfilter 4.x, not the 3.x series that ships with FreeBSD.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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