tech-security: Re: ALERT: Security hole introduced by patch being backed out on releng-1-5 branch.

Subject: Re: ALERT: Security hole introduced by patch being backed out on releng-1-5 branch.
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-security
Date: 10/25/2001 21:20:43

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:06:42AM +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
> 
> It appears someone decided to remove the code which invokes pfil_hooks
> on forwarded IPv6 packets for the NetBSD 1.5 branch, leading to it not
> being possible to filter them.  Thanks releng-1-5, you're my heroes.

Did you discuss this patch with releng first ? I seem to remember that
you commited it yourself, which is not the approved procedure to
get code commited to the a -release branch.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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