Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 13:14:28 +0200 From: Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com> To: Steve Reid <steve@edmweb.com> Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [bugtraq] Serious Linux Security Bug Message-ID: <326CAC94.5358CBEE@systemics.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961021134926.189B-100000@bitbucket.edmweb.com>
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Steve Reid wrote: > > This has been discussed on the Bugtraq list for a few days now, but I > haven't seen any talk of it here. > > There is no mention of the attack working against *BSD machines except for > one person running FreeBSD 2.1.5 who reported that his Intel EtherExpress > card stopped working for a couple of minutes. > > The attack is simple. From a Win95 box, > ping -l 65510 buggyhost > and it can crash or reboot some OSs. Very nasty. > > Has anyone checked the FreeBSD kernel to make sure that we're not > vulnerable? I've tried it on 2.1 and 2.2 and they behave OK (although they don't reply to the ping, unlike a windoze machine). I was trying to emulate the problem with a small perl script, but haven't got a suitable "target". Anyone out there care to test it for me? Best regards, Gary -- pub 1024/C001D00D 1996/01/22 Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com> Key fingerprint = 0C FB 60 61 4D 3B 24 7D 1C 89 1D BE 1F EE 09 06
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