[2585] in bugtraq
Re: Denial of Service Attacks INFO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonny Llama)
Wed May 22 23:49:35 1996
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 20:36:56 -0400
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
From: Jonny Llama <llama@ra1.randomc.com>
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.
From that snippet you quoted I'd guess thats its the SunOS flaw where if
it gets a packet with ip_options of an invalid size, it freaks out. I
guess I should quit doing all this important stuff and go read that file.
*shrug*
>
> der Mouse
>
> mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
>
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