Bug#931416: marked as done (klibc-utils: ipconfig denial of service when IP nameservers are configured on the kernel command line)

From	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#931416: marked as done (klibc-utils: ipconfig denial of service when IP nameservers are configured on the kernel command line)
Date	2019-10-08 19:50 +0200
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On Tue, 2019-10-08 at 02:14 +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Debian Bug Tracking System dixit:
> 
> >Your message dated Tue, 08 Oct 2019 01:35:33 +0000
> >with message-id <E1iHePV-000HLu-9u@fasolo.debian.org>
> >and subject line Bug#931416: fixed in klibc 2.0.7-1
> 
> >>     - ipconfig: Implement support -d ...:dns0:dns1 options (Closes: #931416)
> 
> >has caused the Debian Bug report #931416,
> >regarding klibc-utils: ipconfig denial of service when IP nameservers are configured on the kernel command line
> >to be marked as done.
> 
> Not sure about that:
> 
> >>        ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<device>:<autoconf>:<dns0-ip>:<dns1-ip>:<ntp0-ip>
> 
> 1. is <ntp0-ip> also now handled?

No, but that was not required ("possibly even NTP configuration").

> 2. are any future colon-separated extensions now ignored
>    in a way to make it not fail should they be introduced,
>    i.e. to not repeat this problem?

Oops, no, that is still an error.

Ben.

> Both were requested in the original bugreport.

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Bug#931416: marked as done (klibc-utils: ipconfig denial of service when IP nameservers are configured on the kernel command line) Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2019-10-08 19:50 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#931416: marked as done (klibc-utils: ipconfig  denial of service when IP nameservers are configured on the kernel command  line) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2019-10-08 19:50 +0200
  Bug#931416: marked as done (klibc-utils: ipconfig denial of service when IP nameservers are configured on the kernel command line) Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2019-12-11 19:10 +0100

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