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Re: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henrik P Johnson)
Mon Oct 21 13:07:30 1996
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:17:09 +0200
Reply-To: Henrik P Johnson <hpj@one.se>
From: Henrik P Johnson <hpj@one.se>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>
In-Reply-To: <01BBBEB4.BF6CF440@ppp12.kic.or.jp>
On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Jason T. Luttgens wrote:
> Today we saw an email from Linus Torvalds advising of a probl=
em
> with Linux and ping. Basically you can reboot a linux box remotely i=
f
> some scenario's are right. From what we can tell and this has all be=
en
> verified is: If anyone in the world with a Windows 95 machine can pin=
g
> your
> Linux box they can potentially reboot that machine.. Hence a serious
> denial of service OR loss of data.
This also works on HPUX 10.1, when I tried it I got a system panic and =
the
machine hang and didn't reboot.
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Nice site: http://www.underscore.se/sj (Swedish)
