[5815] in bugtraq
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.