Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Alan Cox) | | Subject | Re: Zombie request-route with 2.0.31` | | Date | Tue, 11 Nov 1997 11:58:06 +0000 (GMT) |
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> > > mechanism which can completely replace request-route and there are > > > applications that depend on it. > > > > Well thats a pity, because we removed it. > > ...based on an invalid premise (that it would not be necessary).
Based on some valid race condition premises, and demonstrated exploit techniques including code sent to bugtraq.
> allocate memory etc. The people who designed kerneld were not stupid > and put some special-casing in to take care of that.
I am aware of this. In the 2.1.x routing however their rather clever special casing just doesnt work
> > Diald is just an example of how to do it, and the same technique holds > > for other applications > > Not for non-static routing.
The diald snooping approach applies for arbitary routing situations.
Alan
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