[9663] in bugtraq
Re: Pingflood attack against Windows98
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark A. Heilpern)
Fri Feb 19 16:53:28 1999
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:32:00 -0500
Reply-To: "Mark A. Heilpern" <heilpern@MINDSPRING.COM>
From: "Mark A. Heilpern" <heilpern@MINDSPRING.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <36CA5EF6.651BF218@safenetworks.com>
At 03:17 AM 2/17/99 -0300, you wrote:
>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.
I issued "ping -f -s 65000 my-win98-address" and after a single return, win98
locked up cold. I was ssh'd from win98 to linux to issue the ping, so I might
have had more returns than timing allowed to be displayed before I locked
up.
