Bug#332228: kernel-source-2.4.27: ipt_recent bug: stops working after a 250 days uptime

2005-10-06 Thread Ludovic Drolez
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:39:50AM +0900, Horms wrote: I have talked with upstream, and Juergen Kreidleder who originally discovered this bug about this problem. Unfortunately there is no patch that fixes this problem that upstream is comfortable, so I would rather But replacing jiffies with

Bug#332228: kernel-source-2.4.27: ipt_recent bug: stops working after a 250 days uptime

2005-10-06 Thread Horms
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:10:34AM +0200, Ludovic Drolez wrote: On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:39:50AM +0900, Horms wrote: I have talked with upstream, and Juergen Kreidleder who originally discovered this bug about this problem. Unfortunately there is no patch that fixes this problem that

Bug#332228: kernel-source-2.4.27: ipt_recent bug: stops working after a 250 days uptime

2005-10-05 Thread Ludovic Drolez
Package: kernel-source-2.4.27 Severity: important After 250 days, the jiffies overflow and ipt_recent do not work anymore. If ipt_recent is used with a '-j DROP' then backlisted IPs are blacklisted forever, ignoring the --seconds option, so that you could be kicked out of your server. The