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From: Paul Griffith <paulg@interlog.com>
To: Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD splash in a wired article.
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Can some tell us young folks what the teardrop exploit is ????

Paul Griffith - paulg@interlog.com

On 12 Jan 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote:

> Open Systems Networking <opsys@mail.webspan.net> writes:
> > http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/9581.html
> 
> "DeVoe said that openly-developed operating systems, such as FreeBSD
> and Linux, had patches available for the teardrop exploit very early
> on."
> 
> AFAIR BSD-based OSes, unlike Windows and Linux, never *were*
> vulnerable to teardrop - or does my memory fail me?