From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:54:00 +0200 > Yasuyuki KOZAKAI wrote: > > Hi Patrick, > > > > Please apply the following patch. The option IP6T_OPTS_NSTRICT causes to > > ignore rules for options in HBH/DST header. > > > > I think this issue affects few users. Because fortunately (?) man page and > > 'ip6tables -m hbh --help' does not show --hbh-not-strict option, and > > 'ip6tables ... --hbh-not-strict' does not work due to incorrect has_arg > > value in userland libip6t_hbh.c ;) > > > > I will implement not-strict mode, so the patch leaves the definition of > > IP6T_OPTS_NSTRICT. The strict mode is too strict (the specified options > > have to be included in order in HBH/DST header) and would be useless > > in most senarios. > > Since my knowledge of this quite limited - is this fix important > enough so it should go in 2.6.27, or is queuing it for 2.6.28 OK > too? Actually I am torn between them. I think this is security issue, like that 'iptables -p tcp -j DROP' does not drop TCP packets. But no ip6tables user meet this issue because of has_arg bug. I prefer 2.6.27 so that I don't need to fear rare case in several months :) -- Yasuyuki Kozakai -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
