Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 21 Oct 1996 15:08:46 +0100 | From | (Mike Bremford) | Subject | Re[2]: Ping with a 65510 bytes packet |
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Apologies - I know it's off topic, but is there any information on which other systems this can be exploited on? I've killed a Linux machine with it, and I know it causes AIX to dump as well. I've tried it on Solaris 2.4 to no effect. My office are positively shitting themselves, as our firewall guy is away for a month (I know, I know...)
Any information I get, I will knock up into a web page and post the URL FYI...
TIA, TTFN.
Mike
______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: Ping with a 65510 bytes pack Author: Shinanyaku <shin@binary9.net> at Internet Date: 18/10/96 18:52
Bruno Kraychete da Costa was heard saying .... > > When a friend of mine, using a Win95 workstation, issued the ping > command using a pack of 65510 bytes and addressed to my Linux 2.0.22, it > simply rebooted. On the second time he issued that command, all the > process stopped because of a general protection 000, including the agetty > processes. Everybody try this and lock up your linux system? I did. It works as reported except it didn't reboot my box, just lock it up solid-like. Shin! __________________________________________________________________________ Another Mailing List personality of Nicholas J. Leon shin@binary9.net [ http://www.binary9.net/nicholas/ ]
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