[3559] in bugtraq
Re: The Ping Denial of Service bug on almost all Unixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett L. Hawn)
Wed Oct 23 01:26:17 1996
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 22:20:41 -0500
Reply-To: "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net>
From: "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net>
X-To: The Ghost who Admins <mevans@inficad.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.961022093440.11030A-100000@inficad.com>
it'll work just dandy past a router, we tested on several machines more than
15 hops away through several routers, they bombed out.
On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, The Ghost who Admins wrote:
>
> I called Apple Network Server support on this issue becuase ANS machines
> run AIX 4.1.4 (apples version of it, but still AIX). AIX 4.1.4 is
> susceptable as has been noted here (even on the ANS server). One thing the
> Apple guys said to see if happens is if the attack can be performed
> outside a router, or via a router. Since I don't have a machine that is
> past a router of any kind, I wanted to see if anyone on the list has had a
> chance to attack a machine past a router, and whether it works or not.
> The theory is that the router will kill the oversized packets.
>
> Thanks for your time :)
>
> Go Devils! Fork the Cardinal!
>
> Mike Evans
> <mevans@inficad.com>
>
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