[2575] in bugtraq
Re: Denial of Service Attacks INFO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Hughes)
Wed May 22 17:21:42 1996
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 13:18:17 -0500
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
From: Doug Hughes <Doug.Hughes@Eng.Auburn.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <199605221049.GAA04444@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
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>> 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.
>
I wonder.. could this be referring to the old source route bug that
would cause SunOS machines to crash (usually using ping -l)
?
Doug
