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Bug 390071

Summary: IPv6 layer wrongly delivers multicast packet to upper layer
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng>
Component: kernelAssignee: Neil Horman <nhorman>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Martin Jenner <mjenner>
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Priority: low    
Version: 5.1CC: dzickus
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2008-0314 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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The patch for fixing this problem none

Description Gui Jianfeng 2007-11-19 08:48:07 UTC 
Description of problem:
IPv6 layer will deliver any IPV6 multicast packet to upper layer even if the
packet has a invalid multicast address(nobody participates in this address).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.18-53.el5

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Comment 1 Gui Jianfeng 2007-11-19 08:48:07 UTC 
Created attachment 263341 [details]
The patch for fixing this problem
Comment 2 Gui Jianfeng 2007-12-20 02:47:00 UTC 
Excuse me, will this patch be applied to RHEL5.2?
Comment 6 Don Zickus 2008-01-08 20:46:43 UTC 
in 2.6.18-64.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2008-05-21 15:01:56 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0314.html