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| author | Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | 2007-05-01 01:31:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | 2007-05-01 01:31:47 +0200 |
| commit | 5225791117b564cd8b5683cf82d9eea45b0f0d59 (patch) | |
| tree | f3fc7af96ac222ed53dc415d062a13b3147d1ac5 /Documentation | |
| parent | ca80e5b5767e8a2bf0714f9797b872258e500ee6 (diff) | |
[IPV6]: Disallow RH0 by default (CVE-2007-2242)
A security issue is emerging. Disallow Routing Header Type 0 by default
as we have been doing for IPv4.
This version already includes a fix for the original patch.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 26364d06ae92..d512f227dda6 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -723,6 +723,15 @@ accept_redirects - BOOLEAN Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled. disabled if local forwarding is enabled. +accept_source_route - INTEGER + Accept source routing (routing extension header). + + > 0: Accept routing header. + = 0: Accept only routing header type 2. + < 0: Do not accept routing header. + + Default: 0 + autoconf - BOOLEAN Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router Advertisements. |