Comment 5 for bug 1732294
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| Sarah Newman (srn-f) wrote Re: [Bug 1732294] Re: Probable DOS in linuxbridge | #5 |
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On 11/14/2017 07:11 PM, Tristan Cacqueray wrote:
> Contacting <email address hidden> with as much detail as can sounds like a
> good things to do, see https:/
> guide/security-
>
> IIUC, the load happen when an instance simply tries to spoof many new
> mac address? If so, that doesn't seems like something we need to keep
> under embargo and it could probably be easier to fix this issue in
> public.
>
MAC spoofing is obvious and easy, but maybe so obvious that it's gone out of style to try it. I have to assume so since I don't think anybody has
bothered to fix it.
Give me a chance to duplicate with net-next and contact kernel.org? They will probably want to make it public ASAP since there's an easy mitigation
and there's also prior discussion from 2013 https:/
--Sarah