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Commit c5187a40 authored by Stephen Hemminger's avatar Stephen Hemminger Committed by Chris Wright
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[PATCH] prevent bad forwarding table updates


Avoid poisoning of the bridge forwarding table by frames that have been
dropped by filtering. This prevents spoofed source addresses on hostile
side of bridge from causing packet leakage, a small but possible security
risk.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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