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Re: CERT Advisory CA-97.28 - Teardrop_Land

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles M. Hannum)
Tue Dec 16 19:42:24 1997

Date: 	Tue, 16 Dec 1997 15:12:18 -0500
Reply-To: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@MIT.EDU>
From: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@MIT.EDU>
X-To:         cert-advisory-request@cert.org
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  Aleph One's message of Tue, 16 Dec 1997 12:37:07 -0600

Aleph One <aleph1@DFW.NET> writes:

>
> The NetBSD Project
> ==================
>
> Topic 2 - Land
>
> No feedback.

Versions prior to 1.3_BETA will hang.  1.3_BETA and later versions are
not vulnerable.

> Red Hat Software
> ================
>
> Topic 1 - Teardrop
>
> Linux is not vulnerable.

It's well known that versions of Linux prior to publishing of the
teardrop attack *were* vulnerable.  The above borders on an outright
lie.

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