[1407] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
[linux-security] Re: problems in kernel?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian La Roche)
Tue Jan 28 13:34:20 1997
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 18:39:14 +0100
From: florian@knorke.saar.de (Florian La Roche)
To: linux-security@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970128150951.7317A-100000@mailserv.tversu.ac.ru>; from Vadim Kolontsov on Jan 28, 1997 15:25:54 +0300
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
Reply-To: linux-security@redhat.com
> Interesting behavior, isn't it? Sendmail's version was 8.8.2. If
> attacker will sent SYN and RST packets every 3 seconds, he can completely
> disable SMTP...
sendmail 8.8.5 makes a "sleep(5)", if the "accept()" fails. That's
also a possibility to email-exchange very hard with relatively few
packets.
Florian La Roche
