From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Apr 22 16:25: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from deathrow.mail.pas.earthlink.net (deathrow.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60FE737C50E for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:21:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.22]) by deathrow.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16zZGv-0006Y2-00 for arch@freebsd.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 01:34:05 -0700 Received: from pool0030.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.30] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 16zZGP-0002yw-00; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 01:33:34 -0700 Message-ID: <3CC3CAC2.12D2ED18@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 01:33:06 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Fenner Cc: kbyanc@posi.net, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Overflowing sockaddr_dl's sdl_data buffer References: <200204211826.LAA05288@windsor.research.att.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Fenner wrote: > I think that sdl_data should go back to being a variable-length buffer, > and the source routing stuff should be reimplemented somewhere else > (perhaps at the end of the variable-length buffer). > > What uses the source-routing fields? I know of several "script kiddie" tools which use it. Most sane people turn it off on their routers, so mostly the tools don't work. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message