Re: Any status on timestamp vulnerability fix for 4.X?

Uwe Doering wrote:
> Richard Coleman wrote:
> 
>> Any information on when (or if) the following timestamp vulnerability 
>> will be fixed for 4.X?  Any information would be appreciated.
>>
>> http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/637934
> 
> 
> FYI, the fix for RELENG_5 applies to RELENG_4 as is (apart from the CVS 
> version header, of course):
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c.diff?r1=1.252.2.15&r2=1.252.2.16&f=u 
> 
> 
> After verifying its semantic correctness for RELENG_4 we've been running 
> the patch for a couple of weeks now with no ill effects.
> 
> I'm posting this also as an encouragement for committers to go ahead and 
> do the MFC.  It's low hanging fruit.
> 
>    Uwe

We tried applying that diff to 4.10, but compilation failed with

tcp_input.o: In function 'tcp_dooptions':
tcp_input.o(.text+0x21d8): undefined reference to 'TSTMP_GT'

Did you just define that macro?  Or was something else required?

Thanks for the help.

Richard Coleman
rcoleman@criticalmagic.com
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