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lanrat

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From: Poland

Registered: 2003-10-28

Posts: 1,274

FYI: DoS attack possible against 2.6.x kernels with iptables

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robot5x

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Registered: 2004-01-26

Posts: 266

Re: FYI: DoS attack possible against 2.6.x kernels with iptables

It says that an update is needed - but to what?
This bug affects all 2.6 kernels, so if I want to continue using iptables I have to go back to 2.4?

paranoos

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From: thornhill.on.ca

Registered: 2004-07-22

Posts: 442

Re: FYI: DoS attack possible against 2.6.x kernels with iptables

I found the original security announcement on SuSE's site, which says the "problem has already been fixed in the 2.6.8 upstream Linux kernel".

Of course, Arch users are safe pacman -Syu often!