Re: Patches/Bugfix

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:28:32 +0100 (BST)


> - The TCP SYN attack stops Version 2.0.20 even if no programs are listening to
> any port.

I've not duplicated that so far. Work is underway for a fix to the SYN
attacks. I think thats the only one being actively used we have a problem
with. The fragment bomb attacks don't take out Linux and we have secure
TCP sequence numbers sorted.

The SYN one is an unpleasant one.

Alan