Am 23.07.19 um 17:57 schrieb Ben Hutchings: > On Tue, 2019-07-23 at 16:51 -0400, Tomas Pospisek wrote: >> Package: general >> Followup-For: Bug #932769 >> >> Could you privide a recipe on how to reproduce this? There's a lot of >> very special setup below, that someone wwould need large amounts of time >> to reporoduce I feel. >> >> Is it possible to reduce the problem to something easily demonstratable? >> >> This seems to be an important issue to me. >> >> I think the problem here *might* be a kernel problem? Re-assign this to >> kernel package? > [...] > > So far as I know, the kernel only ever does DHCP if you net-boot > without an initramfs.
My focus was more on this issue here - aparenty: Mark Hutchison wrote: >> This DoS's the server [due to DHCP changing IPs rapidly >> - my interpretation] and the interface attempts to take and discard >> IP's in a rapid fashion. -> changing IPs of an interface of a *VM* can DoS the server. Which I think is not expected, and not terribly funny. It takes a bit of not so straightforward circumstances (as far as I can understand the bug report), but then an attacker can DoS the server via DHCP. Which is uh, I mean ah, um. Information is a bit sparse here, though. <OT>If I may shoot completely off topic for a second: Woah, many thanks for your terrific kernel maintenance work Ben. Truly amazing :-o!!! Thanks so may times a lot! Woah :-)!!!! Thank you! (this doesn't exclude the rest of the kernel team - my thanks extend to you all - it's just that I have the honor to say thanks to a participating party in this email exchange 8v)!</OT> *t