Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 04:18:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Victor Balada Diaz <victor@bsdes.net> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/81540: Pf bug in FreeBSD 5.3 errata page its wrong Message-ID: <200505270218.j4R2I5f2014975@alf.dyndns.ws> Resent-Message-ID: <200505270220.j4R2K12o004090@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 81540 >Category: docs >Synopsis: Pf bug in FreeBSD 5.3 errata page its wrong >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri May 27 02:20:01 GMT 2005 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Victor Balada Diaz >Release: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p15 i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD alf.dyndns.ws 5.3-RELEASE-p15 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p15 #0: Thu May 26 21:13:13 CEST 2005 victor@equilibrium.euesrg02.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/EQUILIBRIUM i386 >Description: In the errata page of FreeBSD 5.3 release its documented a pf bug: (31 Oct 2004) When the user/group rule clauses in pf(4) and ipfw(4) are used, the loader tunable debug.mpsafenet must be set to 0 (this is 1 by default). For example, the following rules are affected: the problem is that you can panic the machine even with mpsafenet disabled when you're using the user clause. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: Put in the errata page something like "Using the user/group clauses in pf can panic the system, so don't use it." >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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