Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 22:05:14 +1100 (EDT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: ck@adsu.bellsouth.com (Christian Kuhtz) Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: icmp Message-ID: <199901191105.WAA19295@cheops.anu.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <19990118230751.D5878@oreo.adsu.bellsouth.com> from "Christian Kuhtz" at Jan 18, 99 11:07:51 pm
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Before you go, there is one mitigating circumstance with ICMP unreachable messages. On some IP implementations, they can be used to affect a denial of service attack due to mishandling of the error message (it causes open and established connections to be closed). Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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