[27363] in bugtraq
Re: Flood ACK packets cause AIX DoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Brenner)
Wed Oct 9 15:23:12 2002
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:58:41 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)
From: Doug Brenner <doug-brenner@uiowa.edu>
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I suspect that the APAR is actually IY31641 (for AIX 4.3). The AIX 5 APAR
is IY31940. I believe the APAR description is "M/C HANGS IF IT IS FLOODED
WITH PACKETS WHOSE TH_FLAGS IS NULL."
On 9 Oct 2002, Mauro Flores wrote:
> Corrective Action:
> ==================
> Apply APAR IV31641