[151] in bugtraq
Re: udp packet storms - ping death
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Nov 2 18:16:55 1994
To: Charles Howes <chowes@helix.net>
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Nov 1994 07:45:58 PST."
<Pine.SUN.3.90.941102074335.21876D-100000@trance.helix.net>
Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 1994 14:04:32 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Charles Howes says:
> > Our copy of ping is installed setuid root; ...
>
> So you mean that any student at princeton can panic any Sun there just by
> typing that command? Cool...
There are already so many ways to panic suns from userland...
.pm
