Subject: Re: [patch] r8169: fix crash when large packets are received

From: Michael Tokarev <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:59:02 +0400

David Miller wrote:
> From: Jon Masters <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:40:38 -0400
> 
>> CC -stable team - remote DoS with this hardware present.
> 
> "remote", if on the same physical subnet, otherwise easily protectable
> if not impossible to trigger

"remote" as "from outside of the host in question".
But still, this is definitely worth fixing.

Thanks.

/mjt