Re: Are linux network drivers really affected by this?

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 08:08, [e-mail] wrote:
> The paper presented by Olaf Arkin (amongst other) points to some parts
> of the linux code where this "vulnerability" exists.  I think Alan Cox
> is working on some patches for his tree.  I wonder whether it's better
> to null-pad  ethernet packets  or   to fill  them with  random  values
> (possibly an overkill, but more resiliant against fingerprinting).

Most of them will pad with zero. We have a couple of drivers that already
pad with something along the lines of "NetBSD is a cool OS too.."

The -ac tree should have the problem fixed for all the drivers I know have
the problem or may do.