Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 7 Dec 1996 10:43:18 -0800 (PST)
From:      batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie)
To:        questions@freefall.freebsd.org
Cc:        fenner@parc.xerox.com
Subject:   Re: Is this Ping of Death for real?
Message-ID:  <m0vWRiZ-0008taC@agora.rdrop.com>
In-Reply-To: <199612071823.KAA03430@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-questions-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Dec 7, 96 10:23:47 am

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Due to an interesting combination of bugs, no version of FreeBSD 2.x is
> vulnerable to this attack.  The bugs are fixed in FreeBSD 2.2 and 3.0
> and they're still not vulnerable =)

I beg to differ.  One ping won't do it, but I set up a "ping -c 10000" and
let it run for a while, and FreeBSD 2.<mumble, a system at work> started
rebooting every 5 minutes or so.

-- 
Alan Batie                   ______      
batie@agora.rdrop.com        \    /      Assimilate this!
+1 503 452-0960               \  /       --Worf, First Contact
DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A 27        \/        40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9

It is my policy to avoid purchase of any products from companies which
use unrequested email advertisements or telephone solicitation.



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?m0vWRiZ-0008taC>