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On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 10:47:49AM -0600, Brian wrote: > > > Does the prospect of coming up with a solution to stop attacks on the > > kernel from stream.c look good? With so many OS's vulnerable, I am sure > > Linux will be one of the first fixed. I don't suppose their is anything > > we can do in the meantime to lessen the effects is there? > > We've been looking over stream.c can't see that there is a problem. > I've had numerous systems under fire from stream.c for hours with barely > a slowup. Alan's unimpressed, I'm unimpressed (I'm the Senior Researcher > for Internet Security Systems). We haven't been able to blow up a single > Linux system using this utility. > > You say "With so many OS's vulnerable". Based on what? The > reports that I saw on BugTraq said that it blows up FreeBSD. There > is a patch out there for FreeBSD. Sorry, I was relaying what I had heard on some lists. Specifically the NANOG list, obviously bad information. > You got some specifics or are you just going off on unsubstantiated > rumors? If you've got some specific conditions under which you have seen > stream.c (packet length and service would be handy) take out a Linux box > by any means other than clogging a connecting router, I would love to hear > what those conditions are. Sorry about that I will try to verify that information before posting again. Brian > > > Brian > > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Brian Feeny (BF304) signal@shreve.net > > 318-222-2638 x 109 http://www.shreve.net/~signal > > Network Administrator ShreveNet Inc. (ASN 11881) > > Mike > -- > Michael H. Warfield | (770) 985-6132 | mhw@WittsEnd.com > (The Mad Wizard) | (770) 331-2437 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ > NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all > PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it! > ----------------------------------------------------- Brian Feeny (BF304) signal@shreve.net 318-222-2638 x 109 http://www.shreve.net/~signal Network Administrator ShreveNet Inc. (ASN 11881) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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