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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 14:33:18 +0000
From: Anthony Schneider <aschneid@mail.slc.edu>
To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc: Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@seattleFenix.net>,
	Ivan Streetovich <bad_dot_c@yahoo.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: From: Ivan Streetovich, Japan
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limiting sbsize does the trick.
-Anthony.

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 07:09:40PM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote:
>=20
> On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Benjamin Krueger wrote:
>=20
> > Interesting. I recieved a copy on Thursday night PST and forwarded it t=
o phk
> > and the security officer in the wee morning hours of Friday...
> >
> > I've heard rumour that it was culled from an (years) old post on a free=
bsd
> > list.
> >
> > --
> > Benjamin Krueger
>=20
> This is just another local mbuf exhaustion attack.  We should probably put
> in countermeasures for this one of these days, but it's not all that much
> of a serious problem.  If you have a shell machine you wish to get your
> access revoked on, then by all means go ahead and use this program.
>=20
> Mike "Silby" Silbersack
>=20
>=20
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