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Subject: Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug.... (fwd) 
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>From The Desk Of Jeremy Sigmon :
> 
> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 21:14:42 -0400
> From: Eli Burke <eburke@cslab.vt.edu>
> To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
> Subject: Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug....
> 
> > cy>> >        Today we saw an email from Linus Torvalds advising of a probl
em
> > cy>> >with Linux and ping.  Basically you can reboot a linux box remotely i
f
> > cy>> >some scenario's are right.  From what we can tell and this has all be
en
> > cy>> >verified is: If anyone in the world with a Windows 95 machine can pin
g
> > cy>> >your Linux box they can potentially reboot that machine..
> > cy>>
> > cy>> Yes, but this attack another machines, AIX for example.
> > cy>I just tested this against FreeBSD 2.1.5.  The machine under attack,
> > cy>a 486SX/25, got was for a while but recovered quite nicely.
> >
> > My Friend tested in this machines:
> > >       1) Reboot: OSF/1 3.2C, Solaris2.4 x86
> > >       2) Ignored: *BSD, SunOS4.1.x, IOS, AIX3.2.5, VMS e Solaris 2.4
> > >          Sparc, Irix.
> > >       3) Respond: M$ e OS/2
> > >       4) Crash: Linux, AIX4, OSF  <= 3.2C and AIX3.2.5 on Token-ring.
> 
>         I tested this under OSF/1 3.2 and had no problems. Same for DUnix 4.0
,
> Ultrix 4.4, Windows NT 4.0 (server and workstation), and FreeBSD 2.1.5.
> FreeBSD was the only one that showed any symptoms; the network card stopped
> responding for about two minutes, but I could belive that to be the fault of
> the lousy intel etherexpress driver.
> 

Is this is a joke?

And yes I have had Win95 boxes ping my FreeBSD boxes.

	Amancio