[3532] in bugtraq
Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oliver Xymoron)
Tue Oct 22 03:21:00 1996
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:38:44 -0500
Reply-To: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>
From: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>
X-To: Jared Mauch <jared@WOLVERINE.HQ.CIC.NET>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <199610210612.CAA30146@wolverine.hq.cic.net>
On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Jared Mauch wrote:
> Hopefully this problem is not as widespread as other bugs (Such as
> syslog, etc).
I tested this against a Linux box and had an Ascend P50 router that was
sitting on the network spontaneously reboot. I wasn't watching the Ascend
and I didn't try to repeat it, but I wouldn't be surprised if quite a few
routers were adversely affected. This is both good and bad. Good because
bad pings may have a hard time propagating out of their local nets and
reaching targetted sites.
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