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Old 12-16-2004, 08:10 AM   #1
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Remote Kernel Vulnerability affects 2.6.9


Saw this on bugtraq but haven't seen it here yet, so I thought I'd post.

http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0018-igmp.txt
 
Old 12-16-2004, 09:21 AM   #2
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so untill there's a patch, we should all make sure our firewall's dont allow IGMP unless we actually use it.
iptables -I INPUT -p igmp -j DROP should do it
 
  


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