Re: [libvirt] PATCH: Disable IPv6 on virtual network bridges

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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 04:37:35PM +0100 Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> This is to address:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501934
> 
> which allows the guest to DOS the host IPv6 connectivity
> 
> Daniel
> 
> commit 763cf06ff76b4ded03a9b577cd8c541729190edc
> Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu Jul 30 16:34:56 2009 +0100
> 
>     Disable IPv6 on virtual networks
>     
>     If the bridge device is configured to have IPv6 address and
>     accept router advertisments, then a malicious guest can send
>     out bogus advertisments and hijack/DOS host IPv6 connectivity
>     
>     * src/network_driver.c: Set accept_ra=0, disable_ipv6=1, autoconf=0
>       for IPv6 sysctl on virual network bridge devices

Nasty problem. However, why disable ipv6 as well? Disabling only
ra and autoconf seems sufficient. There is probably some reason,
but more people than me are undoubtly curios about this.

/Jonas

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Jonas Eriksson
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Combitech AB
Älvsjö, Sweden

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