From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 12 12:19:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA24159 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 12:19:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA24154 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 12:19:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id MAA16415; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 12:18:59 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 12:18:59 -0800 (PST) From: Jan Koum X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: Paul Griffith cc: Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD splash in a wired article. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id MAA24156 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org http://www.rootshell.com/archive-Rbf4ahcmxzw5qn2S/199711/teardrop.c -- Yan On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Paul Griffith wrote: >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 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? > >