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[linux-security] Re: Re: denial of service attack on login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Travis Siegel)
Wed Nov 27 17:45:16 1996
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:15:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Travis Siegel <tsiegel@softcon.com>
To: linux-security@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199611270540.XAA32687@sh1.ro.com>
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
Reply-To: linux-security@redhat.com
> > The following denial of service attack seems to work quite nicely on my
> > ancient Red Hat 3.0.3 system with the standard login application. Perhaps
> > this is not a problem with 4.0? Does anyone know about other distributions?
> >
> > joe$ nvi /var/log/wtmp
> >
> > [ Now no-one else can log in ]
>
It doesn't work on my (slightly) modified slackware 3.1 installation
either. Just for reference.
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