[14419] in bugtraq
Re: Local Denial-of-Service attack against Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dapozza)
Fri Mar 24 18:33:31 2000
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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:04:27 +0100
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On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 17:55:09 -0500, you wrote:
>This amusing little program will hang Linux 2.2.12 (default Red Hat 6.1),
>2.2.14 (latest stable kernel) and 2.3.99-pre2 (latest development kernel)
>on my 6x86 scratch machine and our various Pentium development machines.
>Note that this does not require any special privileges.
Tried it on my Redhat 6.1 box with the 2.2.14 kernel as non root and
it worked. I can ping the box but telnet hung.
Marco van Raaij
Sysadmin Van Wijhe Verf BV Zwolle
