Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:41:39 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tcp: sysctl to disable TCP simultaneous connect | From | Kees Cook <> |
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote: > Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> writes: > >> The patch would not break it -- it defaults the sysctl to staying enabled. >> >> If you mean the documentation should be updated, sure, that's easy to do. >> >> David: I know you aren't a fan of this patch, but I'd like to try to >> convince you. :) This leaves the feature enabled and add a toggle for >> systems (like Chrome OS) that don't want to risk this DoS at all. >> There are so very many other toggle, I don't see why this one would be >> a problem to add. > > Chrome OS has no plans to implement webrtc? Last I had read that > support had been added to the release versions of Chrome, and was in the > development builds of firefox. I really don't belive that there are > many systems that don't intend to run a web browser.
I haven't looked at the internals of webrtc. Are you implying some feature in it relies on the TCP simultaneous connect?
-Kees
-- Kees Cook Chrome OS Security
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