Hi Harlan, and thanks. Comments below

On 06/02/15 23:44, Harlan Stenn wrote:
>> Debian Squeeze doesn't have a patched package available in the
>> > squeeze-lts series yet. On those clients would a restriction like
>> > 
>> > restrict ::1 ignore
>> > 
>> > mitigate the vulnerability?
> I think so, but it will also make it much harder to use ntpq and other
> things.

Sure thing, I'm aware of that. On the other hand, I don't need that on
the big majority of the nodes and, on those where I still need it, I can
still fall back to IPv4's 127.0.0.1.


> It also won't do anything to protect other services that might
> use source ACLs for protection


Of course not. But we fix that on a per-site basis rather than locally
on each node.


> Better to:
> 
> - fix your firewall rules to block ::1 incoming packets on external
>   interfaces

Yep, see above.


> - just build 4.2.8p1 and install it

By the way, are there debian packages for 4.2.8p1? I wasn't able to find
any.

Many thanks, ciao!
-- bronto


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