[3511] in bugtraq
Re: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Cisco)
Sun Oct 20 05:03:51 1996
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 17:16:00 -0400
Reply-To: James Cisco <eherot@weblings.org>
From: James Cisco <eherot@weblings.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
>Scenario:
>
>Win95 user types 'ping -l 65510 host.running.linux'.
>
>Result:
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>That machine reboots OR freezes.
>
>On the Linux machine, you need to be running kernel version 2.0.7(It's
>the
>lowest we run) up to version 2.0.20(The highest we're running).
Actually, I'm running 2.1.1 and it works on that as well...
