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Alan Cox releases patch to correct security hole in 2.2.x

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June 2, 1999

Alan Cox writes: “This should fix the bugtraq reported DoS
attack in all 2.2 kernels”.

[ We haven’t received any BUGTRAQ reports yet about this, so
patch your kernel quickly! -dw ]

--- ../linux.vanilla/net/ipv4/ip_options.c      Wed May 12 16:49:38 1999
+++ net/ipv4/ip_options.c       Tue Jun  1 22:11:46 1999
@@ -452,7 +452,6 @@
 error:
        if (skb) {
                icmp_send(skb, ICMP_PARAMETERPROB, 0, htonl((pp_ptr-iph)<<24));
-               kfree_skb(skb);
        }
        return -EINVAL;
 }

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