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Re: Oracle8 denial of service (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Oberther)
Sat Apr 21 03:48:45 2001

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Date:         Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:12:47 -0400
Reply-To: Stephen Oberther <oberther@CS.FSU.EDU>
From: Stephen Oberther <oberther@CS.FSU.EDU>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM

> Oracle 8 servers running Windows NT 4.0 (SP6) and does not require any
> authentication credentials to succeed. I have not tried it on any other versions
> or platforms.

This works on Oracle 8 running on Solaris 8 as well.  No credentials
needed to do the name lookup either it just eats up a processor.  Good
thing it isn't threaded.

--Steve

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