Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 08:58:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>, Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>, Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org>, aschneid@mail.slc.edu, ras@e-gerbil.net, roam@orbitel.bg, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/22595: telnetd tricked into using arbitrary peer ip Message-ID: <200107231558.f6NFwTB17064@earth.backplane.com> References: <200107231117.f6NBHYg61233@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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:Matt wrote:
:> > Pretty much our only option is to extend the size of existing fields
:> > and take the 'oh hell the structure size changed' hit.
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:I wrote:
:> Ok, I agree. I think we should bump UT_HOSTSIZE to 40 then and only
:> put unscoped addresses in the field (ie, fec0::1, not fec0::1%vr0).
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:> Any disagreements ? Should this be brought up (explained) on -arch
:> now ?
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:Interestingly enough, OpenBSD has UT_HOSTSIZE set to 256.
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:Brian <brian@freebsd-services.com> <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Heh. Are they still trying to store the FQDN?
-Matt
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