[3518] in bugtraq
Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eli Burke)
Mon Oct 21 01:02:19 1996
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 00:14:13 -0400
Reply-To: Eli Burke <eburke@cslab.vt.edu>
From: Eli Burke <eburke@cslab.vt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <9610210241.AB10454@s.wipinfo.soft.net> from "Mail Delivery
Subsystem" at Oct 21, 96 08:11:32 am
> Subject: Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug....
> > cy>> > Today we saw an email from Linus Torvalds advising of a problem
> > cy>> >with Linux and ping. Basically you can reboot a linux box remotely if
> > cy>> >some scenario's are right. From what we can tell and this has all been
> > cy>> >verified is: If anyone in the world with a Windows 95 machine can ping
> > cy>> >your Linux box they can potentially reboot that machine..
> >
> > My Friend tested in this machines:
> > > 1) Reboot: OSF/1 3.2C, Solaris2.4 x86
>
> I tested this under OSF/1 3.2 and had no problems. Same for DUnix 4.0,
> Ultrix 4.4, Windows NT 4.0 (server and workstation), and FreeBSD 2.1.5.
[snip]
Wiping off the egg, I take back what I said. This successfully crashes
OSF/1 3.2 and DUnix 4.0 _when done from WinNT or Win95_. Thanks Bill. :)
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Eli Burke
eburke@vt.edu
http://csugrad.cs.vt.edu/~eburke/
