Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-20:10.ipfw

Ed Maste <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.security.general
Message-ID <CAPyFy2Bx6hM0FdF2xHPrpzfCDo+5JRtetxQs2_S9zy=V2FEmew@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 15:29, Eugene Grosbein <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 21.04.2020 23:55, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote:
> > =============================================================================
> > FreeBSD-SA-20:10.ipfw                                       Security Advisory
> >                                                           The FreeBSD Project
> >
> > Topic:          ipfw invalid mbuf handling
>
> [skip]
>
> > IV.  Workaround
> >
> > No workaround is available.  Systems not using the ipfw firewall are
> > not vulnerable.
>
> This is not true. The problem affects only seldom used rules matching TCP packets
> by list of TCP options (rules with "tcpoptions" keyword) and/or by TCP MSS size
> (rules with matching "tcpmss" keyword, don't mix with "tcp-setmss" action keyword).

I believe this is correct; what about this statement:

No workaround is available.  Systems not using the ipfw firewall, and
systems that use the ipfw firewall but without any rules using "tcpoptions"
or "tcpmss" keywords, are not affected.
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