On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 15:49 +0000, David Laight wrote: > > SCTP is lacking proper np->opt cloning at accept() time. > > > > TCP and DCCP use ipv6_dup_options() helper, do the same in SCTP. > > > > We might later factorize this code in a common helper to avoid > > future mistakes. > > I'm wondering what the real impact of this and the other recent > SCTP bugs/patches is on real workloads? > We have enough trouble getting our customers to use kernels > later that the 2.6.18 based RHEL5 - without having to persuade > them to use kernels that contain very recent fixes.
It all depends if your customers let (hostile ?) people run programs on the boxes. I wont run the program on my laptop just for the fun of making it crash, but I guess Cloud providers might be worried, once exploits are public. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
