Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:47:26 -0400 | From | Gary Schrock <> | Subject | Re: kernel bug -> security problem |
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At 03:33 PM 10/24/96 +0100, you wrote: >On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, M Shariful Anam wrote: >> > I've just received e-mail about a bug in the kernel which causes linux >> > to reboot when the following ping is issued from windowz 95 : "ping -l >> > 65510 linux.box.IP.address" .. I tried it and sure enough linux dies >> > quickly and without any warning ... >> >> Sorry for a late reply, but I just tested this on our LAN, from Win95 to >> linux 1.2.13 and it doesn't crash. >Maybe it happens on newer kernels ?
Well, trying it here with 2.0.22 on the machine didn't cause any trouble. The ping requests timed out, but other than that nothing bad happened.
Gary Schrock root@eyelab.msu.edu
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