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Date:      Tue, 2 Mar 2004 14:43:39 +0100
From:      Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mbuf vulnerability
Message-ID:  <9CDEFA50-6C4F-11D8-9FC0-000393496BE8@lassitu.de>
In-Reply-To: <20040301113726.T17968@odysseus.silby.com>
References:  <6.0.3.0.0.20040229182702.07a67a68@209.112.4.2> <20040301103615.GB97298@starjuice.net> <20040301113726.T17968@odysseus.silby.com>

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Am 01.03.2004 um 18:42 schrieb Mike Silbersack:
> A specially constructed stateful firewall could be constructed to deal
> with this DoS, but I'm certain that there's no way you could use ipf or
> anything preexisting to do the job.

OpenBSD's pf scrubbing should be helpful here. From the FAQ:
> The scrub directive also reassembles fragmented packets, protecting 
> some operating systems from some forms of attack.
<http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/scrub.html>;

Our port is only for 5.0 or newer, though.

-- 
Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>   Fon +49 170 346 0140



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