[9651] in bugtraq
Pingflood attack against Windows98
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fabio Bastiglia Oliva)
Thu Feb 18 20:22:33 1999
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 03:17:26 -0300
Reply-To: Fabio Bastiglia Oliva <fboliva@SAFENETWORKS.COM>
From: Fabio Bastiglia Oliva <fboliva@SAFENETWORKS.COM>
X-To: rewt <rewt@lunar.dyndns.com>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
rewt wrote:
>
> Try pinging the windows box with large amounts of icmp...I left 5
> screened pings, each set to 65000 size...Windows will freeze shortly
> after its loaded. You might also try to ping with -f.
>
Hey...
I made what you suggested, and it's true... But in my case the
results were a little worse than yours...
Windows 98 *REBOOTED* after a ping -f 65000... and wasn't need
to make several screen boxes... With only one ping -f 65000 the system
rebooted.
Best Regards
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Fabio Bastiglia Oliva - Director
fboliva@safenetworks.com
Safe Networks Informatica LTDA.
http://www.safenetworks.com
