[ds6-devel] Re: netcat6: patch - address equality

[Chris Leishman]

On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 12:46 PM, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
>> I found an error in netcat6's address equality testing function. At
>> least in the version distributed by Debian (0.2pre2).
>>
>> The code uses a memcmp to compare IPv6 addresses, but does so over a
>> wrong size: It is comparing (struct in6_addr) structures, but compares
>> memory on (sizeof struct sockaddr_in6) bytes, leading to false
>> negatives.
>
> thank you very much, lionel, but fortunately that problem had been 
> already
> fixed before nc6-0.3. you should probably consider upgrading to 
> nc6-0.4, but
> i don't know if there is already a debian package for the new version 
> of nc6.

I emailed the maintainer a week or so ago, asking him to update the 
package - but I haven't heard anything.  I'll give him a little longer, 
and then I'll put on my debian maintainer hat and do an update myself.

Regards,
Chris