Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list netdev); Thu, 09 Jan 2003 18:07:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from Cantor.suse.de (ns.suse.de [213.95.15.193]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id h0A26x3v031974 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:07:00 -0800 Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DF3014E2F; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 03:12:41 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 03:12:41 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Yan-Fa Li , netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: FYI: Etherleak Message-ID: <20030110021241.GA32653@wotan.suse.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-archive-position: 1520 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: ak@suse.de Precedence: bulk X-list: netdev On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:49:47PM -0800, Yan-Fa Li wrote: > An interesting report into frame-padding information leakage violations in > ethernet drivers. The authors use linux drivers in their examples. > > http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2003/atstake_etherleak_report.pdf It's an old bug, it was discussed years ago on l-k. Unfortunately the drivers weren't fixed at that time. -Andi