[9739] in bugtraq
Re: Pingflood attack against Windows98
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fabio Bastiglia Oliva)
Mon Feb 22 16:51:56 1999
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 04:04:44 -0300
Reply-To: Fabio Bastiglia Oliva <fboliva@SAFENETWORKS.COM>
From: Fabio Bastiglia Oliva <fboliva@SAFENETWORKS.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Michal Zalewski wrote:
>
> Sorry, but I'm afraid this thread is a little bit out-of-date.
> Pingflood against Windows 95/98 is a well-known shool DoS. ping -s -f
> or ping -s -l over local networks seems to cause Windows to lock-on
> permanently (or temporarily, depending on weather), or even reboot.
> Is there anything more to talk about?:>
>
Dear Mr. Zalewski,
Since Microsoft's announced that Windows 95 DoSs were corrected
in Windows 98, and we found this bug AGAIN... I think that this thread
IS NOT out-of-date.
Best Regards
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Fabio Bastiglia Oliva - Director
fboliva@safenetworks.com
Safe Networks Informatica LTDA.
http://www.safenetworks.com
