[14472] in bugtraq
Re: Local Denial-of-Service attack against Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Dafoe)
Sun Apr 2 14:08:33 2000
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Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 11:10:29 -0400
Reply-To: Jeff Dafoe <jeffd@EVCOM.NET>
From: Jeff Dafoe <jeffd@EVCOM.NET>
X-To: Gigi Sullivan <sullivan@sikurezza.org>
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The issues causing this DoS are apparently more complex than it
may appear, I have followed the discussion in the Linux kernel mailing
list. There is a patch for the exploit in 2.2.15pre-16 and it is a
noteworthy amount of code.
Jeff
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Gigi Sullivan wrote:
> Aiee :)
>
> Hello!
>
> As I said in my previous post, the patch I supplied worked, but it
> wasn't the right way to do it.
>
> So, I attach here a `new' patch (very easy one, tho).
> This should do the job and should be the `right way' do it ...
> however, if someone find something of wrong, please let me (us) know.
