alt Hacker News"the bug sits in code every Linux server runs when it accepts an IPv4 TCP connection, before any application sees the connection."
Is iptables considered an "application" here? I.e. can this bug be triggered before iptables drops the packet?
"the bug sits in code every Linux server runs when it accepts an IPv4 TCP connection, before any application sees the connection."
Is iptables considered an "application" here? I.e. can this bug be triggered before iptables drops the packet?
Put OpenBSD in front to protect that little scared penguin.