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Re: Denial of Service Attacks INFO

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (der Mouse)
Wed May 22 14:04:30 1996

Date:         Wed, 22 May 1996 06:49:52 -0400
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>

> UDP Bomb - By sending a UDP packet with incorrect information in the
> header, some Sun-OS 4.1.3 Unix boxes will panic and then reboot.

Anyone willing to say _what_ this magic incorrect information is?  I'd
much rather not have to take the time to grab the patch, uncompile both
it and the file(s) it replaces, and try to figure it out from there.

                                        der Mouse

                            mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu

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