Is the "tcp time stamp validation issue" fixed in 5.4?

Christian Brueffer chris at unixpages.org
Fri May 20 12:22:15 GMT 2005


On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 08:46:50AM +0200, Thomas Vogt wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm a bit confused about the "tcp time stamp validation bug" mentioned
> in the http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/637934 advisory. FreeBSD has fixed
> this issue in -current (2005-04-10) and in RELENG_5 (2005-04-19). 
> 
> Is this also already fixed in 5.4? The CVS ID for tcp_input.c does not
> look like this. But I'm not sure.
> 

Unfortunately the fix wasn't merged back to RELENG_5_4 during the
release process.  I have written a mail to the security team (see thread
on net@), hopefully they will merge this back soon.

- Christian

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