Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 25 Oct 1996 09:12:43 +0800 (HKT) | From | Francis Vidal <> | Subject | Re: kernel bug -> security problem |
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On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, M Shariful Anam wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Jacek Radajewski 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.
only the newer kernels (2.0.x) are affected by the bug.
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