[2579] in bugtraq
Re: Denial of Service Attacks INFO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Newsham)
Wed May 22 18:28:33 1996
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 09:31:02 -1000
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
From: Tim Newsham <newsham@aloha.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <199605221049.GAA04444@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> from "der
Mouse" at May 22, 96 06:49:52 am
> > 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.
sending a bad length field in a UDP packet used to panic
sun4.1.x boxes. (by bad I mean something like 0 or 1, smaller
than the size of the udp header even). I'm not sure if
this is the same bug mentioned.
> der Mouse
> mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
