[3541] in bugtraq
Re: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc MERLIN)
Tue Oct 22 13:49:00 1996
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:55:09 -0700
Reply-To: Marc MERLIN <merlin@magic.metawire.com>
From: Marc MERLIN <merlin@magic.metawire.com>
X-To: dpswkdb@albertsons.com
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.961021153120.56101A-100000@S7352c.7000.albertsons.com> from Keith Bower at "Oct 21,
96 03:44:37 pm"
> In response to multiple comments about AIX vulnerability to ping -l 65500
> your.AIX.host from an NT or WIN95 workstation.
Just wanted to add that it doesn't work from any NT. I tried with an NT 4
machine with two service packs, and linux didn't care less about the pings.
When I switched to NT 3.5, linux crashed instantly
Marc
